The Paris administrative court on Thursday suspended a prefectural decree which made it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in the French capital since December 31
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The Paris administrative court on Thursday suspended a prefectural decree which made it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in the French capital since December 31, AFP learned from the court.
This decision comes the day after that of the administrative court of Versailles, which had suspended a similar decree concerning the department of Yvelines, to the south-west of the capital, a first on the national territory. This court considered that the measure “undermined, disproportionately and inappropriately (…) individual liberty”.
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The decision concerning this order of the prefecture of police of the capital, put in place to deal with the emergence of the Omicron variant, will be published on Friday, added the administrative court of Paris. Asked by AFP, the police headquarters reserved its response to receipt of the decision.
“As it was neither necessary nor strictly proportionate, the administrative court wished to suspend the decree,” for his part commented to AFP Me Jean-Baptiste Soufron, who pleaded for the suspension of this decree.
As in many countries, infections in France have experienced a meteoric rise under the pressure of the variant Omicron, extremely contagious.
New restrictive measures
The government adopted new restrictive measures at the beginning of the month, such as wearing a mask in transport from the age of 6, and many departments or cities, such as in the Paris region or Lyon, have imposed the return of the child. mask obligatory in the street.
The government is also striving to have Parliament adopt the transformation of the health pass, accessible including with a negative test, by a vaccination pass equivalent to a virtual obligation of vaccination.
President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to “piss off the unvaccinated”, in an interview published last week, and interpreted by analysts as deliberately controversial to push his right-wing competitors into their entrenchments three months before the presidential election.
In return, anti-pass and anti-tax demonstrations in clear revival took place last weekend, with nearly 20,000 people in Paris.
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