No president of the court, 10 judges instead of 19… Montauban is desperately looking for magistrates. In this department of 265,000 inhabitants, an unprecedented crisis has set in since the number of judges on the bench fell from 16 to ten between the end of December and the beginning of January.
While the jurisdiction should have 19 sitting magistrates, the court is on the verge of explosion and is only holding together thanks to the limitless commitment of its magistrates and clerks. Faced with the prefect and elected officials, the magistrates denounced this untenable situation.