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May Day protests: why the use of drones provokes the legal debate

2023-05-01T14:03:06.602Z


Four appeals have been filed in court against their use during the May Day demonstrations. In Rouen, the administrative court has limited its use.


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We are moving towards a trivialization of the use of drones, as has been the case in the past for video surveillance which has gradually imposed itself in the public space

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The constitutionalist Paul Cassia does not take off.

Of the four appeals that he contributed to filing under the Adelico association - an association for the defense of constitutional law -, jointly with the French lawyers' union and the Magistrates' union, all very marked on the left, only one partially successful.

Their objective: to ban the use of drones in support of the police while the government feared serious excesses during the demonstrations on May 1.

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It's a legal cacophony

“, denounces Maître Jean-Baptiste Soufron who brought the four appeals.

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These are the two sides of the same coin

," said a connoisseur of administrative justice who deciphers the decisions.

Thus in Rouen, Sunday evening, the administrative court partially…

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Source: lefigaro

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