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Article: French government announces state of emergency
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- November 9, 2005
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French government announces state of emergency
PARIS, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- The French government on Wednesday
published a decree in its official gazette on the internet, declaring
a state of emergency all over mainland France from 0:00 a.m. on Nov.
9 (2300 GMT Nov. 8).
The publication of decree followed Tuesday's cabinet decision to
invoke a 1955 emergency powers law, which gives local government
officials, or prefects, power to declare curfews if they judge
necessary.
Under the law, local officials can "forbid the movement of people
and vehicles in places and times fixed by decree" and ban "meetings
likely to provoke or fuel disorder."
The law also allows "house searches at any time of ...