“Above all, there is no misunderstanding: we are not anti-masks. At the helm of the administrative court of Nancy, Monday morning, during a hearing in interim relief, Claude Richard and Pierre-Étienne Lehmann, two lawyers who introduced their request as “citizens”. They contest the prefectural decree taken on September 7 and which extended the geographical scope and the hours of wearing the mask (from 7 am to 2 am) in Nancy. “For us, there is a disproportion between the obligation of general interest and the protection of public freedoms”, they plead. According to them, the new perimeter is far too large. The two applicants want the decree to be withdrawn and a return to that of August 5, which concerned just the hyper-center with hours from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. “In the alternative, we are asking for the creation of two perimeters: the hyper-center with hours from 7 am to 2 am and an area outside the hyper-center, with hours from 7 am to 7 pm. “
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Reconfinement and new economic disaster
For Marie Cornet, chief of staff of the prefect 54, “the geographical scope is certainly wide but it corresponds to the population density. It is even his layer. 60% of Nancy residents live in this area. On September 2, the positivity rate was 36, it hit 54 last week. If there is an emergency, it is well to avoid a re-containment and a new economic catastrophe. At the end of Monday afternoon, the president of the court Didier Marti rejected the request. At the same time, the Strasbourg administrative court retested the prefectural decree imposing the general wearing of masks in Strasbourg …
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