Administrative justice orders the city corridor of Malakoff to take away the Palestinian flag from its pediment | EUROtoday

The Administrative Court of Cergy-Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) ordered, Saturday September 20, on the city corridor of Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine) to withdraw the Palestinian flag from his pediment, the place he had been hoisted in anticipation of the popularity by France of the State of Palestine.

The Ministry of the Interior requested the prefects on Friday to oppose it by getting into administrative justice. The prefect of Hauts-de-Seine executed Friday night to demand the withdrawal of the flag from the city corridor of Malakoff. The Communist city corridor instantly denounced “A prefectural coup against the free administration of the municipalities”.

Several mayors deliberate to hoist the Palestinian flag on Monday, the day of the popularity of the State of Palestine by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

In its choice, consulted by the France-Presse company, the choose in abstract proceedings of the Administrative Court of Cergy-Pontoise considers that transferring the forecourt of the city corridor of a Palestinian flag is opposite to the precept of neutrality of public providers and has due to this fact enjoined the municipality to proceed with its fast withdrawal. The Ministry of the Interior had invoked this precept within the directions addressed to the prefects.

“An attack on my freedom to think”

“The State not only does not require the pavity, but requests non-pevaise”insisted, on Saturday, the secretary basic of the Ministry of the Interior, Hugues Moutouh.

In the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the communist mayor of Mauléon-Clicharre, a metropolis of three,000 inhabitants, who had exhibited a Palestinian flag on Friday, withdrew him on Saturday after referral to administrative justice by the prefect of the division, as a part of a abstract process.

“I cut the two strings this morning and the flag is now in my office. It is an attack on my freedom to think ”stated Louis Labadot on the radio right here Basque Country.

The Cergy-Pontoise administrative courtroom additionally suspended the choice of the city corridor of Bezons (Val-d’Oise) to exhibit a Palestinian flag on the pediment of its city corridor, even earlier than it’s hoisted, based mostly on a press launch from the mayor of this city.

In Lille, twinned since 1998 with Nablus, within the West Bank, the Palestinian colours had been hoisted in entrance of the city corridor, alongside two French flags and a European flag, famous the France-Presse company on Friday. “Immediate ceasefire in Gaza; Liberation of hostages; respect for international law; recognition of the State of Palestine ”can we learn on reverse panels on the facade.