nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160712-161103 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160712s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160712-161103 doi eng 342 23 Rodopoulos, Ioannis Author aut Between the Scylla of Terrorism and the Charybdis of the Police State: on the new French Anti-Terrorist Legislation Rodopoulos, Ioannis Verfassungsblog 2016-07-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier One month ago, France has enacted a new anti-terror law to end the state of emergency that had been in place since the terror attacks of Nov 15 2015. The basic purpose of the law is quite clearly to empower the executive (police and prosecution services) with investigative tools formerly reserved to the judiciary. Whether such a transfer of powers is justified or not, the fact is that the “country of human rights” actually now has today the most authoritarian anti-terrorist legislation in the European Union. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 anti-terrorism Police State State of Emergency surveillance Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/france-terrorism-emergency-rodopoulos/ raw object