Top French court rejects scraping the state of emergency

The French Council of State, the highest court on administrative justice, on Wednesday rejected an appeal to suspend a state of emergency imposed after the November 13 Paris attacks, France 24 reported.

The appeal, filed by the Paris-based Human Rights League (known by its French acronym, LDH) suggested that if the state of emergency could not be suspended, the French Council of State should at the very least suspend some of its measures, such as house searches and the ban on public gatherings.

In its ruling delivered on Wednesday, the Council of State noted that, "the imminent peril justifying the state of emergency has not disappeared given the continuation of terror threats and the risk of attacks."

The Council of State– France’s top court on administrative justice, which also serves as the legal advisor of the executive branch – also ruled that French President François Hollande’s decision “not to end the state of emergency does not carry a serious and manifestly illegal infringement of a fundamental freedom".

Source: MENA