Courts will remain open in France and all judicial activity will be maintained despite the reconfinement which takes effect on the night of Thursday to Friday, announced the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti.
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Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday a new confinement of the population for at least four weeks but "specified that the public services will have to continue to function", recalls the Minister of Justice in a video message addressed to the 84,000 agents of the ministry.
In the spring, during the first confinement, judicial activity was reduced to civil and criminal emergencies, resulting in the referral of thousands of non-priority cases.
"In the jurisdictions, the PCAs (plans of continuation of activity, editor's note) which reduce the activity to the essential functions will not be activated, but a certain number of precautions will have to be taken", explains the minister.
“Thus, the unique reception services for litigants will remain open but by making an appointment.
Jurisdictional activity will be maintained in the presence of duly summoned persons but with strict respect for distancing and barrier gestures, ”explains Éric Dupond-Moretti.
He adds that he asked his services "to complete as quickly as possible the planned deployment plan for laptops in order to allow as many of you as possible to exercise their professional activity remotely, when possible."
In prisons, "compliance with sanitary measures does not call into question living conditions such as visiting rooms or teaching in detention", assures the minister.
During the first period of confinement, their suspension had provoked mutinies and incidents in some penitentiary establishments.
