Unheard of at the Paris court. This Monday morning, the jurisdiction was blocked by a hundred Parisian lawyers, including the emergency exits, to the chagrin of the magistrates who were only able to enter in a dribble and that they were caught very early .
At the origin of this action, the Union of young lawyers and the Syndicate of lawyers of France, very active since the beginning of the movement in Paris. A magistrate was allegedly molested while trying to force the blockage and decided to file a complaint. "It is inadmissible," protested this very shocked magistrate, "not only in the name of the public service of Justice while these lawyers defend corporate interests but also in matters of security applicable to tall buildings" , insists- she.
CRS sent on site
The heads of court, President Stéphane Noël and the Public Prosecutor Rémy Heitz received Olivier Cousi, the Bâtonnier of Paris, in the morning to try to calm the game. “I am not at the origin of this type of 'action but I am in solidarity with my colleagues. The blocking of the court is like the blocking of the government which does not want to hear anything , " affirmed the boss of the Parisian lawyers present on the spot while the CRS arrived around 11:30 to end the blockade.
The trial of François Fillon should because of the movement of lawyers be postponed to resume only Wednesday. In the meantime, the presidency of the court is trying to stem as much as it can the disorder caused by such a movement, in particular by doubling or even tripling the immediate appearances but also by rotating the magistrates in order to spare the teams.
Last Friday evening, the government proposed a new amendment supposed to calm the game but which had the opposite effect, that of adding fuel to the fire. He proposed that the amounts coming from pleadings fees and equivalent contributions from the business bar, that is to say a total of 87 million euros, be used to smooth the increase in contributions. The National Bar Council notes, however, that these sums are used to pay lawyers' basic pensions before 1975.
