Thursday, the public prosecutor's office of the Court of Appeal of Rennes decided to appeal Cassation as for the decision of the Court of Appeal of Rennes to authorize that the first name Fañch is written with a "tilde". Michel Canévet reacts.
Monday, the Court of Appeal of Rennes returned on the decision of the High Court of Quimper, returned in September 2017, authorizing that the first name Fañch is written with a "tilde" . This Thursday, the public prosecutor's office of the Court of Appeal of Rennes decided to appeal to Cassation. "I contacted the Minister directly in the context of oral questions to the Government," says Michel Canévet. If the principle of freedom of choice of the first name of a child is effectively enshrined in Law No. 93-22 of 8 January 1993, it is not permitted to retain a given name with diacritics not known in the French language. "
"Concretely as the circular of 23 July 2014 on civil status, which details the official list of diacritics, and in which does not appear the " tilde " , will not be changed, the administration could stay on a strict application of texts. "The Court of Cassation, which" judges only in law ", might not take into account the context of the case (as apparently the Court of Appeal did), proceeding only with a strict application texts ". For Senator Michel Canévet, it is "urgent that the Ministry of Justice finally complete this circular by entering the tilde".