Progressive divorce between judges and lawyers

"Do you want a delay in being tried?" - No, I want to be tried right away . - Do you have a lawyer? - No, I want to defend myself . " The scene takes place Friday at the opening of the immediate appearances of the 23rd chamber of the Paris court. Ubuesque situation, the defendant, accused of sexual assault and aggravated violence under the manifest influence of alcohol, has just said these words while in the courtroom crowds a hundred lawyers protesting against the reform retreats and who came en masse to ask for referrals. And not least, since we meet Olivier Cousi, the Bâtonnier of Paris, the great penalists Christian Saint-Palais and Martin Pradel, the delegate of the Bâtonnier to the searches, Vincent Nioré, young people of the conference of the training course and the truckers of the office commission. It is therefore better to be tried immediately without a lawyer rather than to see pretrial detention lengthened with a lawyer…

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