A police check, in Douai on 20 December 711. – FRANCOIS GREUEZ / SIPA
Police and gendarmerie received the green light from the Council of State on Monday. The police may file political opinions, union membership and health data in the name of state security, the institution confirmed. It thus rejects the requests of unions denouncing the “dangerousness” of these files.
The highest administrative court considered that the three contested decrees, which widen the possibilities of registration, did not disproportionately affect the freedom of opinion, conscience and religion or freedom of association. The Council of State had been seized in summary by several central trade unions including the CGT, FO or the FSU, but also the Syndicat de la magistrature and the Syndicat des Avocats de France, who denounced the “specter of the Big Brother in 2021 ”.
The decrees, published on December 4 after a favorable opinion from the Council of State, therefore authorize the police and gendarmes to mention the “political opinions”, “philosophical and religious convictions”, and “trade union membership” of their targets, while the previous texts were limited to listing “activities”. Usernames, photos and comments posted on social networks will also be listed there, as will the psychological and psychiatric disorders “revealing a particular dangerousness”. In addition to natural persons, “legal persons”, such as associations, are also targeted.
Beginning of November, 349. 397 inscriptions on the three files
In detail, the decrees relate to three files: the Pasp (prevention of attacks on public security) of the police; the Gipasp (information management and prevention of attacks on public security) of the gendarmes and the
EASP (administrative investigations linked to public security) used before the recruitment of civil servants in sensitive positions. Beginning of November, 60. 397 people were registered in Pasp, 60. to Gipasp and 190. 711 at EASP, according to the Ministry of Interior.
Previously limited to hooligans and violent demonstrators, these files will now also list the data of people suspected of terrorist activities or likely “to undermine the integrity of the territory or the institutions of the Republic”, a concept “vague” according to its detractors.
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