Overview
- The tribunal administratif de Paris ordered the suspension of the curfew for unaccompanied minors on Wednesday, Oct. 28, after an urgent legal challenge by the group Vigie Liberté.
- The contested police order had banned any person under 18 who was not with a legal guardian from circulating or loitering between 21:00 and 06:00 in areas near the Élysée, the Assemblée nationale, the Sénat, the Champs-Élysées and major train stations.
- In their emergency ruling the judges said the Prefect of Police provided no precise elements showing a specific risk posed by minors during the curfew hours and described the age-targeted rule as a serious and manifestly illegal restriction on freedom of movement.
- Vigie Liberté welcomed the suspension, saying the decision ends a series of police measures that had a deterrent effect on public freedoms for young people in central Paris.
- The measure sits inside a wider post‑October 17 public-order response and the ruling highlights how France’s administrative courts can use urgent interim orders to check policing measures that appear disproportionate or lack evidentiary support.