"The project that the government wants to adopt would include the extension in common law of a certain number of exceptional provisions", says on France 24 the Defender of rights, Jacques Toubon, who is preparing to leave the independent authority after six years spent at its head. This is "contrary to one of the principles of a state of emergency like the state of emergency: it is that it is only temporary, and that exceptions to the principle, and in particular to freedoms - restrictions freedoms -, have an end, and they are not permanently installed in ordinary law ".

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