The charm of the customs officer is over. This unique, almost supernatural ability to detect the commission of a crime or the presence of a prohibited substance with an infinitesimally small sign. The parameter of this know-how. Article 60 of the Customs Code, which states that “for the purpose of detecting fraud, customs officers may inspect goods and vehicles and certain persons”. A brevity that is inversely proportional to what it appears. the enormous freedom that customs officials have to decide on the inspection, its duration, its scope, all this without prior justification.
Last Thursday, the Constitutional Council did just that “menhir, this cornerstone on which the customs code has been based for fifty years”.rejoices M.e Eugene Bangura, a lawyer at the Burj bar, who, with the support of Me Bertrand Perrier, presented the case to the sages of the Montpensier gallery.
The latter really decided to introduce…
Source: Le Figaro
