Only four judicial magistrates have been affected by this measure since the year 2000. The case of Hélène Gerhards “says a lot about the danger for magistrates who work in Corsica,” says an investigating magistrate from the West.
“That plus the threats, it’s no wonder that no one wants to work there anymore,” he says of the island territory of 340,000 inhabitants where “there have been many cases of probity for justice personnel ».