In a report to Eric Dupond-Moretti, the ex-custody of Seals Elisabeth Gigou calls to better educate about the functioning of justice, better train actors related to the judicial institution and better regulate social networks .
Le Monde with AFP
The request came, in April, from the custody of the seals. Eric Dupond-Moretti had charged Elisabeth Guigou to “draw up a state of attacks” at the presumption of innocence, and to make “any useful, legislative or practical proposal” likely to ensure respect.
The report concoled by a working group – magistrates, lawyers and journalists – who auditioned more than 80 people for four months, is published on Friday 15 October.
The former Minister of Justice, which had been at the origin of the law of June 2000, strengthening the presumption of innocence, draws up a “very dangerous” observation for the rule of law. The “attacks come from everyone; all the actors of society are guilty from this point of view: especially since the emergence of social networks,” said M me Guigou at the France-Press agency (AFP).
The 90-page ratio lists four pistes of reflection:
- better educate citizens with the great principles of law and the functioning of justice;
- better explain its action;
- better train the actors of justice;
- Strengthen criminal protection.
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“The distrust of the judicial authority, linked to a strong lack of knowledge of its functioning, its daily activity, its successes but also its difficulties, constitutes a soil promoting the attacks on the presumption of innocence”, emphasizes The working group.
For example, the authors of the report call for example to raise awareness of the fundamental principles of law, including the presumption of innocence “by multimedia advertising spots but also at school and during events”.
“Social networks are so many relevant information resonance crates but also rumors whose consequences for the reputation and honor of people can be devastating,” they add.
The working group proposes, for example, to examine the possibility of sanctioning the presumption of innocence based on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to regulate social networks.
Questions about pre-trial detention
In addition to these priority axes, he wondered about the use of pre-trial detention, which is “likely to seriously compromise” the presumption of innocence, but also on the reversibility of the status of indicting when “the indices Serious or concordant derogates “.
“Several of these proposals call for a strengthening of human resources but also materials of the justice for too long,” he concludes, hoping that his reflections will feed “the work that will soon be incurred, in particular, in particular, in particular In the framework of the General States of Justice, launched Monday in Poitiers. According to M me Guigou, the custody of the seals, to whom she presented the report Thursday morning, was “very interested”.
“He has made a commitment to study all the proposals of the report, to ensure that it can be disseminated and many of its applied proposals,” said the former minister, who is hopeful that the Report “Do not finish at the bottom of a drawer”.