In an unprecedented attack since its creation, the institution led by Dominique Simonnot is questioned with the Minister of Justice by the Union Union of Magistrates.
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This is an unprecedented attack, the object of the controller general of the places of deprivation of freedom (CGLPL) on the part of magistrates. The Union Union of Magistrates (USM), their principal union, seized the Minister of Justice of practices which seem to him to “come out of his role as an independent administrative authority”. In a letter sent during the summer to Eric Dupond-Moretti, Céline Parisot, president of the USM, denounces “an incorporation not acceptable in the sphere of the jurisdictional act”.
The starting point of this war of interpretation about the role of the CGLPL is the visit of a team of controllers in two of the four penitentiary establishments in Polynesia, Faa’a-Nutania and Tuitutu, in the city of Papeari , in May 2022. Dominique Simonnot, the general controller, wrote the 1 June to the Minister of Justice to alert him of observations made on the spot. In this letter not intended to be made public, that Le Monde has been able to read, are mentioned “dysfunctions” at the Papeete court which “lead to serious attacks on the fundamental rights of detained persons”.
This mail relates for example “humanly unacceptable situations”, a consequence of the sub-effective in the service of the execution of the penalties of the Papeete prosecution. Like the case of detainees who arrived at the end of his sentence, expected by their family before the prison on the announced day of their release, to whom the execution “of an earlier and sometimes old sentence, while the services of the court have been informed for weeks or even months “.
These are especially the findings drawn up by M me simonnot on the application of sentences and the arrangements that make the USM jump. The union has recovered the letter of 1 er June by its own networks.
“It’s my mission”
“The sentence development policy is also illegible, excessively restrictive and in full lag with the spirit of the law of justice programming”, writes the general controller. And to cite a rejection rate of 80 % of requests for constraint under stress or “requirements which are not provided for by any law” imposed on prisoners requesting permission to go out, such as the monthly payment to the civil parties or to the Treasury From 30 % to 50 % of their resources, “even for the destitute”. Additional reduction practices are deemed “rigid and excessive severity”.
The Polynesian jurisdiction with only one judge of the application of sentences, these criticisms were read by the USM as ad hominem attacks. “The mission of the CGLPL is not to say that the judges are doing well or badly,” insists Cécile Mamelin, vice-president of the USM, according to whom the colleague of Papeete has been summoned by her heads of court since.
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