«Le Coup d'état d'urgence», ou comment la France a fait du citoyen un «sujet virus»

Spring 2020.To cope with the COVID-19, the first state of health emergency in the history of France is established, inspired by the state of emergency decreed during the Algerian War.Over the day after day, the entire French population is under house arrest, deprived of their freedom to go and come, from their right to privacy and, depending on the case, its right to work or to theFreedom to undertake.

In the coup d'etat of emergency - surveillance, repression and freedoms, published on January 21, 2021 at the editions of the Seuil, the criminal lawyer Arié Alimi poses an uncompromising look at the issue of public freedoms and police drifts.We publish the good sheets of his book, of which here is an extract from the chapter "The state of health emergency or the advent of the" Virus subject ".»»