The President of the Republic inaugurated, Monday, October 18, to Poitiers, 120 days of citizen consultation and debates. He called to “redeem the link between justice and those on behalf of which it is rendered”.
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They were more than a thousand, magistrates, lawyers, clerks, supervisors or prison directors, educators of the judicial protection of the youth, police, bailiffs, elected officials or students in law, gathered at the Congress Palace of the Futuroscope of the Futuroscope of Poitiers for the launch of the General States of Justice, Monday, October 18th. Emmanuel Macron asked them to “interfere with any subject, no field, no daring” during the one hundred and twenty days of debate he calls his wishes throughout the territory, throughout society.
According to the President of the Republic, probable candidate for his own succession, “there is urgency to reconnect the link between justice and those on behalf of whom it is rendered”. Beyond this question of confidence, it is access to the law and the effectiveness of the justice that it is to guarantee.
m. Macron justified the need for this “system” discount exercise by the fact that the many reforms in recent years have been juxtaposed. However, he hammered, “the improvements at the margin are no longer enough”. He took to witness the assembly of extracts from a radio-cashier on the justice brought in opening in which the words “unfair”, “inaccessible”, “complicated”, “lax”, “absolute slowness” slammed “lax”. On stage, six people had come to testify to their experience, like this grandmother who had to wait three years that the family business judge decides whether she would be entitled or not to see her two grandchildren whom her daughter refused to entrust him .
Reform the criminal procedure
To guarantee the independence and rigor with which the proposals that will go up from this great national consultation will be retained, appraised and formulated by the end of February 2022, Mr Macron entrusted this work to a commission chaired by Jean -Marc saved, just out of the work of the Commission on sexual offenses in the Church. The Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who has very decided ideas on the reforms of which he remains, as the split of the body of the judiciary between the magistrates of the prosecution (those who lead the investigations and bear the prosecution. and those of the headquarters (those who decide a dispute or judge the guilt of a man and decide on the penalty), will not have voice in conclusions to which these general states will arrive.
If the sheet given to participants in this exercise is white, the Head of State nevertheless delivered on Monday indications on the themes he wishes to move forward. The subject of the liability of the magistrates has returned several times in his speech. It is, according to him, the consideration for the independence of the judicial authority. He welcomed the recent proposals made by the Superior Council of the Judiciary to broaden the possibilities of questioning this responsibility. But for him, the subject is not closed.
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