The Constitutional Council validated Thursday the law organizing the exit from the state of health emergency from Saturday, but specified the prohibitions of movement of people, which according to him can not lead to confinement, even localized.
The Parliament had definitively adopted on July 2 the bill organizing the exit from the state of health emergency on July 11, with possible restrictions until the fall, assimilated by the opposition to an extension in "trompe l ' eye ”of this exceptional diet.
Restrictions but no total bans
The text allows restrictions on the movement of people, the reception of the public in certain establishments or gatherings. The Constitutional Council considers that "the prohibition of the movement of people and vehicles as well as the prohibition of access to the means of collective transport of travelers can only be decreed in the territories where an active circulation of the virus has been noted".
And he judges that "the ban on the movement of people cannot lead to their being prohibited from leaving their home or its surroundings", according to the decision consulted by AFP.
During the debate in Parliament, the Senate had sought at first reading to be "constructive", by reducing the scope of possible restrictions. However, the deputies then reintroduced the possibility of prohibiting the circulation or of ordering the temporary closure of establishments in certain parts of the territory in which an active circulation of the virus is noted.
A new state of emergency necessary
For the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, most of the state of health emergency "disappears", but "not to keep certain measures would be to pretend that the risks of restarting (of the epidemic) do not did not exist ”.
If it were necessary to decide on a new containment, such as the one put in place from March 17, the government would have to declare a state of health emergency again.
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