Two unions and an association invited on Friday to protest gatherings on Monday against the project of reform of the judicial police carried by Gérald Darmanin.
Le Monde with AFP
The magistrates join the mobilization against the reform of the judicial police (PJ). Several unions and professional organizations called, Friday, October 14, to protest gatherings on Monday against a project “likely to seriously affect the effectiveness of investigations and the independence of justice”.
The union of the magistracy, classified on the left, the union union of magistrates, majority, and the French association of instructing magistrates invite to groups before the judicial courts of several cities, including Bordeaux and Marseille, between noon and 2 p.m. Monday October 17.
This controversial reform, which currently causes a strong mobilization in the police ranks, proposes to place all the police services on the level of the department, including the PJ, under the authority of a single departmental director of the National Police (DDPN), dependent on the prefect.
of the magistrates already mobilized in Paris
This “will lead to the absorption of PJ by public security and will sacrifice a highly specialized sector on the altar of mass treatment of daily delinquency, deplore representatives of unions and the association calling to demonstrate , in a press release. In addition to the fact that delinquency rarely ends at the limits of the department, opportunity criteria will be able to guide the distribution of means by the DDPN: statistical requirements, pressure of elected officials, specificities of local delinquency “.
Tuesday, already, magistrates, as well as lawyers, had joined a police rally organized in Paris. Two hundred civil servants had found themselves in front of 36 rue du Bastion, headquarters of the Parisian PJ, in support of the protest movement of their colleagues in several provincial cities, and even though the Paris police prefecture is not concerned by the current reform project.