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France: Judges stand up to Pasqua

01 May 1994

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Battle has been joined between hardline interior minister Charles Pasqua and the judiciary over the new immigration and deportation laws. On 24 March, two Algerian youths were summarily deported for their involvement in violent demonstrations in Lyons. On 6 April a Lyon court ordered that the deportations be suspended, and the interior ministry had no choice but to authorise the youths' return to France. But Pasqua complained that the court's order had no legal basis, and accused the judges of making the law up rather than applying it. The judges' organisations protested that Pasqua was attempting to exert improper pressure on the judiciary, and told him to appeal to the Conseil d'Etat if he was unhappy with their judgments. The Justice minister has entered the fray on the side of the judges, telling Pasqua that he was "wrong and unfair" to blame them for shortcomings in immigration policy.

Liberation 8 13 25 27.4.94.

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