Lawyers question Darmanin’s ability to take Micas during daily management

This is a medium that had not been considered until now: Wednesday, September 4, M^are Romain Ruiz and Raphaël Kempf will plead guilty “incompetence” and the “abuse of power” of the resigning Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, during an appeal before the administrative court of Amiens seeking to annul an individual administrative control and surveillance measure (Micas) taken against his client, Mélanie L. (name has been changed). Her professional entourage was not aware of this measure). Micas are similar to a kind of house arrest, i.e. restrictions on the perimeter of movement, which apply to people who have been released from prison or who have never been convicted but are suspected of being capable of disturbing public order, often for terrorist reasons.

One hundred and fifty-five micas, according to Gérald Darmanin, were pronounced on the occasion of the celebration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) in Paris 2024. An unprecedented number since the state of emergency in force from 2015 to 2017: the Micas replaced house arrests starting with the “internal security and fight against terrorism” law of 2017. Something strange, The Minister of the Interior issued Micas to people who were not convicted or even charged, based solely on “blank notes” (unsigned or with the source) from the intelligence services attached to the applications.

Convicted of receiving stolen goods in a common law case, Mélanie L. was accused in the intelligence note accompanying her Micas of having sympathised, during her arrest, with a suspected jihadist repatriated from Syria.

“A succession of destabilizing decisions”

In the case of Mélanie L., three successive Micas were taken. The first, on July 2, ordered her not to leave her commune in the Somme. However, she must report every day at 7 a.m. to the police station in Amiens. “including Sundays, holidays or non-working days”The administrative court partially annulled this decree, which it considered disproportionate: the Micas, originally for three months, end on 8 September, when the Paralympic Games close.

The Ministry of the Interior appealed and, pending the verdict, issued a second Micas on 30 July: Mélanie L. was authorised to go to her workplace specified in the order; her obligation to clock in daily was moved to 10 a.m. On 26 August, due to the passing of the Olympic flame in Amiens, she was almost banned from travelling. On 30 August, a third Micas was decided by Beauvau, which again brought forward the clocking time to 8:15 a.m. and authorised Mélanie L. to clock in from 1 p.m.^Ahem September, to bring and pick up his daughter from college in a neighboring town. “This succession of decisions is particularly destabilizing for my client, who is trying her best to reintegrate through work.”alleges M^my Ruiz.

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