The elected communists of the regional council of Ile-de-France, supported by an association for the defense of digital freedoms, challenged before the administrative justice the decision of the right-wing majority, led by Valérie Pécresse, to finance drones for the police. municipal.
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During the examination of the region’s 2022 budget in mid-December, the executive took up and voted on an amendment from the LR and related group aimed at increasing financial support for municipal police by 300,000 euros so that they can equip themselves. of drones.
“Illegal” funding
To obtain the suspension of this financing “illegalAccording to him, the communist group, supported in its approach by La Quadrature du Net, has “maintaining the support of the Constitutional Council“Said his lawyer Jean-Louis Péru on Tuesday during a press conference. Last week, the Elders indeed challenged the possibility given to the municipal police to use drones. The Constitutional Council has however validated most of the measures on the supervision of the use of drones by national police officers, gendarmes or customs officers, voted in December in the law on criminal liability and internal security.
On Wednesday, the elected Communists had seen their request for interim suspension rejected by the administrative court of Montreuil on the grounds of the lack of urgency. But he “it will be quite possible to redo a referral“when the regional council will vote on the effective allocation of this funding to the municipalities”in a few weekssaid Bastien Le Querrec, member of La Quadrature du Net. The decision on the merits is not expected for several months. “We can hope that the majority of the regional council (…) will go back and not execute this decision“, estimated for his part Me Péru.
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Valérie Pécresse, LR candidate in the presidential election, “is drawing up its security project for the country in its Ile-de-France laboratory“, lambasted the president of the communist group Céline Malaisé. “The last six months have been marked by an acceleration of regional measures likely to undermine individual freedoms and the law“, say the elected communists, also denouncing Valérie Pécresse’s desire to use artificial intelligence in Ile-de-France transport and her project for a supervision center for high school video surveillance cameras.