The President of the Court described as “victims” the “complainants”, and “complainants” of women who did not complain and were heard as witnesses.
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We wondered if we did not dream. Was it a magistrate, a court president who came spontaneously to describe “victims” those who, to date and until the verdict is rendered, are only complainants? Was it the same that evoked “twenty-four complainants” to designate the twenty-four women heard as witnesses during the investigation or at the bar and who, precisely, explained the various reasons why they had decided to Do not complain? Was it again who insisted that the accused had deceived his wife “from his first marriage”, there is … more than fifty years? And who, in the face of the one who tried to express the emotion he had experienced by listening to the depositions of those who accuse him, raised curtly: “It was time.”
Was it a general lawyer, whose role is to report the proof of his accusations, who asked the accused: “You could make love with any woman? It’s important , the physical criterion, no? “Who did not listen to his answer and pursued the top of his desk:” How many women would want to make love with you seeing you? I, I have my little idea: nearby from scratch. “And who asked him again,” Did you enjoy? Have they enjoyed? “
It was Thursday, October 28, during the interrogation of Jack S., accused of “rapes by surprise thanks to the use of an electronic communication network”, before the Criminal Court of Herault, this jurisdiction experimental before which the majors accused of a crime punished up to twenty years of criminal imprisonment. Friday morning, the Prosecution required twelve years of criminal imprisonment against Jack s.
Malay
In law, the words have a meaning and the two lapse of President Paul Baudoin arouse the discomfort. The impartiality of the person who conducts the debates is the necessary condition for the criminal trial. As are the respect of the presumption of innocence, listening and respect as soon as one owes each party in order to allow it to explain and defend themselves. As for the representative of the Prosecution, Paul Bartoletti, nor his tone nor the terms he has employed can not be those of a general lawyer speaking on behalf of society, so each of us.
The Jack case. S. has already gave rise to several judicial components – referral to the Assize Court decided by an investigating judge, non-place pronounced by a Chamber of Investigation, Cassation, and the new decision of reference – which should Encourage the representatives of justice to a little humility in their assessment. The moment of the criminal trial, by the solemnity and the rigor of its procedure, is that where justice is exposed in public debate and contradictory. If it wants its decisions to be understood and, in turn, respected, it must be banned by the rude bias and the rude contempt.