Blockades of high schools: “Emmanuel Macron, the rule of law does not mean the powerlessness of the State”

Noëlle Lenoir is a lawyer, former minister and former member of the Constitutional Council. Guilhem Carayon, lawyer at the Paris bar, is the founder of the League of Liberties, of which Luc Fontaine, honorary magistrate, is a member of the scientific council.

Police officers, firefighters and teachers targeted in several regions of France in violence of rare intensity; a one-year-old child taken to the emergency room after mortar fire in Yvelines. It is in this climate which astonishes our European neighbors that Le Parisien revealed, a few days ago, that the president's only response was to castigate a police force deemed "too harsh, without empathy". The National Police Alliance union immediately responded: “Your lesson is indecent, it’s a shame! Empathy? Start by having some for our colleagues.” The Human Rights League found nothing better than to denounce a “global drift from the rule of law” and “non-respect…