At the solemn hearing of the Court of Cassation, he mentioned before the Prime Minister and the custody of the “substantive blade” of the platform signed by some 7,000 magistrates and clerks to denounce their conditions working.
Le Monde with AFP
The opportunity was beautiful. Monday, January 10, at the solemn audience of the highest jurisdiction of the French judiciary, the Attorney General near the Court of Cassation, François Molins, denounced “untenable working conditions” and the “structural lack means “of justice.
m. Molins spoke before the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, and the custody of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, the “substantive blade” of the tribune signed at the end of November by more than 7,000 magistrates and clerks to denounce their conditions. Work and in turn the finding of a “crisis” that “no one can deny”, which leads to “suffering” and “loss of meaning”.
Magistrates exercise a “passion business,” said Molins. “A passion for justice that may have us wrongly, led to accept too long, which should not be, that is to say the chronic insufficiency and the inadequacy of the means which are given daily to fulfill our missions (…), which could not actually be carried out by the unlimited dedication of magistrates and justice officials, “he added
m. Molins highlighted the recent budget increase efforts of the department, which experienced two successive increases by 8% over the last two years, and recruitment. “But these efforts, and especially those consented for a year through the recruitment of a thousand contractuals, in addition to remaining insufficient, are not in reality the translation of a certain lack of confidence of the State In his righteousness? “, Mr. Molins questioned. “If this trust existed, it is good [of the perennial job creation of magistrates and clerks who were intervened,” he said.
The anger of the custody of the seals
At the end of the speech, Mr. Dupond-Moretti had a tense exchange with Mr. Molins, before qualifying with his collaborators the words of the Attorney General of “Scandalous”, “said a photographer of the agency France-Presse (AFP). The seal custody then exchanged with the Prime Minister at the exit of the Court of Cassation, repeating the term “scandalous”.
Contact by AFP, his entourage talked about a “free exchange”, arguing that “the part of the discourse concerning hiring to the ministry was truncated and false”. He assured that “2,000” and not 1,000 contractuals had been hired and regretted that Mr. Molins did not mention ads aimed at increasing the number of magistrates.