Liberty, equality, fraternity – Il Foglio



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The French Constitutional Court declared the "crime of solidarity" unconstitutional. Mr. Cédric Herrou appealed to the supreme judges, whom we also knew to have methodically helped the poor who cross the Alps of Italy from Ventimiglia to France, without asking them if they were in conformity with laws and regulations. Herrou, a 39-year-old olive grower, had been arrested several times and sentenced for it. The judges had noticed the lack of interest in his work, and an accuser, asking for a few months in prison for him, had praised the "nobility" of his action. Last year he was fined 3,000 euros. In any state of law, the law is sovereign, it saves something that lies before and above the law itself, what a schoolboy or a normal person would call humanity. France has the advantage of having given a name, even three names, to the above and above the law: freedom, equality, fraternity. The French Constitutional Court has said: "From the principle of fraternity comes the freedom to help others, for humanitarian purposes, regardless of the regularity of their stay on the national territory". And Italy? He does not have these three principles, he has a song about a fisherman, gendarmes and a fugitive who is hungry and thirsty. Not even a Sudanese boy or an Eritrean pregnant woman: a killer.

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