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For Sarkozy and Dubya, a shared playbook

Le Capitaine des Pompiers
Published Monday, March 3, 2008

Always eager to intensify the extremism of his rhetoric, the increasingly unpopular French President Nicolas Sarkozy is seeking to regain approval by coupling a despicable criminal justice reform with a stunning disregard for the law.

Earlier this year, Sarkozy pushed through a bill that allows for “dangerous” detainees to be held in a detention facility after they have completed their sentences. A commission of three magistrates has the authority to order them back in jail for a year after examining the threat they pose; the decision can be renewed indefinitely.

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