The anti-breakers law, a legal puzzle with high political stakes

During the May Day demonstration in Paris. Estelle Ruiz/Estelle Ruiz / Hans Lucas via Re

Surfing on the beginning of a consensus to finally glean a political victory and make people forget the bitter fiasco of the immigration bill. Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, was at the Chancellery on Friday morning to defend his anti-breaker bill against Eric Dupond-Moretti. If the issue is legally perilous, the Beauvau host is betting on public opinion exhausted by a month of violent demonstrations and a probable rallying of the right to his cause, which was already at the origin of the last text on the thugs , voted in 2019. A law which had been partially challenged in the process by the Constitutional Council, which found it very detrimental to the freedom to demonstrate. The Elders of the rue de Montpensier had notably dismissed the provision providing for the administrative ban on demonstrating for the most dangerous elements. The very one that the Minister of the Interior intends to put back on the legislative profession. “Resuming such a device…