Mask games, during the covid-19 in Paris. (Illustration) - Eric Dessons / JDD / SIPA

The application for interim measures will be examined Thursday by a judge of the administrative court of Cergy-Pontoise. The League for Human Rights (LDH) has indeed taken legal action to request the suspension of the decree of the mayor of Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine), found to be in violation of fundamental freedoms, which obliges residents of more than ten years covering his nose and mouth before going out, we learned from his lawyer.

Monday, Philippe Laurent, the mayor UDI of Sceaux, had announced to have taken a decree obliging the inhabitants of more than ten years to cover the nose and the face before leaving, explaining that his decision had been precipitated by a "relaxation on the question of confinement ”observed this weekend in his commune. A measure with a penalty of 38 euros fine for offenders in this town of 20,000 inhabitants of the nearby Parisian suburbs.

Not a competence of the town hall, according to the LDH

For the association for the defense of human rights, which challenges the content and form of this decree, "the disputed decree seriously affects the rights and freedoms of the entire population of the commune", as regards its freedom of movement, now conditioned by the wearing of masks, fabrics, or scarves.

On the form, the association considers that the town hall does not have the competence to take such a decree and this despite the establishment of a state of health emergency: "the general police powers of the local authorities do not allow to the municipal authority to take more restrictive measures than those decreed within the framework of the state of emergency ”, she argues.

It is the representatives of the State in the departments, namely the prefects, who are empowered to take such measures and not the local elected representatives, she affirms.

In addition, the association considers that no "specific local circumstance" justifies the "drastic and radical" measures imposed by the decree.

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