Posted on 11/20/2015 4:58:28 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Franceâs State of Emergency â What will it mean for the French?
By Robert Hackwill
19/11 16:29 CET
| updated at 20/11 - 01:33
France has not seen such a nationwide deployment of security forces in living memory. And it is certainly only the beginning. Two days after the Paris attacks President François Hollande announced the 12-day State of Emergency would be extended to three months, which was confirmed in a parliamentary vote on Friday. It has also been extended to cover all of Franceâs remaining overseas territories.
âI have decided that I will ask parliament to prepare a new law extending the state of emergency for three months, and adapting it to suit new technologies and new threats,â said Hollande on Wednesday.
The State of Emergency law was created in 1955 at the height of Franceâs colonial war in Algeria, and has hardly ever been resorted to since.
It was notably imposed in 2005, but only in several big cities, when mostly young people from poor suburbs rioted, and not for three months. In many parts of France it was barely noticed.
That is unlikely to be the case this time around. Already Franceâs second city Lyon has cancelled one of the countryâs biggest open-air cultural events, the Festival of Light in early December. Paris has banned large-scale demonstrations at next monthâs international climate conference, COP 21, a decision that has already been criticised by activists and civil society groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at euronews.com ...
“I will ask parliament to prepare a new law extending the state of emergency”
Wait just a minute! You mean there is a leader of a country that actually follows the laws of that country and doesn’t just proclaim stuff through executive order?
Sacre bleu!
Notice France is also cracking down on BitCoin and "anonymous transfers" today...because of "terrorism." All a smokescreen.
That is something I will be very interested in. How much of this is to bust the balls of Moslems, and how much of it is to pull the fuse of French nationalists and Euroskeptics?
“’Omeland Securite, Deux”
Any and all liberty is dangerous and won’t be allowed.
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