Then they can't do anything. This law is of abysmal stupidity but everything coming from Sarkozy is made of the same stuff: publicity stunt and utter nonsense.
France's new rule has yet to actually be applied though. You call it genius, I, as a frenchamn who works in a high school, question the viability of it. It's easy to make a law, but there is no framework for it.
I'm French and I really don't think this law will ever pass. Not how it's currently written.
In France, we have something called the "conseil constitutionnel" which checks that every law voted by the parliament is in accordance with our constitution. This law violates a lot of basic rights. For example, the "presomption d'innoncence" guaranties that people can't be arrested without proofs, and that they don't have to prove that they're not guilty; the government has to prove that they are.
Most probably the necessary application decrees won't see the light and the law will remain inapplicable. This is the case for half the laws voted by the French parliament anyway.
Note that this stupidity from a French independent administration didn't end up in droning a whole family and in the end everybody is good for a laugh and life carries on. This case has absolutely no chance of passing any legal test.
What a shitshow. I feel sorry for you, Frenchies. When this inevitably backfires, at least we’ll have an example to point to when some moron attempts to legislate this in a different part of Europe.
"France" is not involved - the French gvt is, which is slightly different. I think few French citizens would even care about this law, and for those who do, would most likely be against it.
There is also the context of presidential elections next year in France, where Sarkozy is in a tough situation to win. Trying to win points in international summits also works well with French citizen people who have not yet realized France is a minor power for more than 50 years.
It is not a hasard to have this kind of laws in France. France hasn't known dictatorship for long. French representatives don't know what a Stasi-like security state would look like. It would be harder to have such a law in Germany.
The low number of delegates during the vote whows how archaic the French politic system is: they are against their own party so they prefer to be missing. There is little discussion. And there is no way to make a petition in France that would go to the parliament or provoke a referendum.
France just shows how current institutions are overwhelmed by new technologies.
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