The fundamental freedoms, "nibbled" for several decades and "still more" by the successive governments, are in "very bad state", worries the president of the National Consultative Commission of the humans right (CNCDH), in a Interview Monday at the World .
"In the name of security, all our freedoms are threatened"
"In appearance, we are a state of law, and we flatter ourselves enough, we have an extensive body of law, judges to protect our freedoms ... In appearance, none of this is threatened. This is something else: in the name of security, all our freedoms are ", criticizes Jean-Marie Delarue, the new president of this commission. "We can not stop telling ourselves that 'security is the first of our freedoms', according to a formula now consecrated.It is false! Security is possibly one of the conditions of our freedom.This aphorism is a dangerous illusion that pushes for decades governments to nibble our freedoms ever more, "protested Jean-Marie Delarue.
France then had "no need for new laws"
For this former director of civil liberties at the Ministry of the Interior (1997-2001), the "starting point" of this setback is the law "security and freedom" Alain Peyrefitte in 1981. France had then "No need for new laws to put terrorists in jail, and that is no longer the case today," Judge Jean-Marie Delarue, who was also Comptroller General of the places of deprivation of liberty from 2008 to 2014. it is enough to be in the vicinity of a demonstration to become a suspect French subject to extraordinary measures, such as searches, "he laments, citing the recent law" anticasseurs ", in the context of the movement unpublished social "yellow vests". "It is also very worrying to see governments always give reason to their police. The police are great people, but like everyone else, they can make mistakes and be wrong, "he says.
Where are the citizens?
What also "worries" the president of the CNCDH is the lack of reaction to the retreat of fundamental freedoms, "as if all these successive laws had ended up paralyzing the protest, as if all this did not interest opinion ". But "human rights is not a thing that is put in front of time as a cherry on the cake, it is not a decoration or a Christmas tree that installs Once a year, it's the basis of everything, "said Jean-Marie Delarue.