The law, they say, is harsh, but it is the law. It obliges everyone and even goes so far as to attack the rights of citizens to impose his rights. The omnipotence of the law is binding on all.
Even if remedies are possible in so-called States of law, the exercise of the law sometimes lacks decency. Dislodging people without notifying them is an act that lacks humanity. To limit one's choices only to the level of the wealthiest is flouting the law. Refusing to compensate or postponing compensation for victims of expropriation for public utility while the project is in progress is cruelty.
Respect for human dignity
Almost everyone is proud to contemplate the splendour of a completed project that embellishes the urban or rural environment. The problem is not the realization itself but rather the harm caused to the victims of this realization. The imposition of a right must always be accompanied by alternatives allowing at least the victims to be satisfied with a provisional solution, unsatisfactory but useful. If any serious beautification project is likely to leave a bitter taste, this taste can at least be lessened by incentive measures, aimed at helping the victims to feel concerned by a development project which requires a consent of circumstance which however is not free. The exercise of the omnipotence of the law must help the populations to feel concerned by the projects undertaken.
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She strives so hard to impose her rights that she even forgets that she also has humanitarian duties towards her fellow citizens. In a context where access to housing is difficult, where are we going to resettle those we have displaced? Even if the fact of infringing on the rights of populations for a cause of public utility can be justified, it should not however be forgotten that the use of the omnipotence of the law to expropriate of the inhabitants without proposing alternative solutions, it is to hinder one of the fundamental freedoms of an individual, namely: the right not to be evicted arbitrarily.
