“We have the feeling that we are handling nitroglycerin on a daily basis. We try not to think about it too much or else paralysis.
David De Pas has coordinated the investigation unit in charge of terrorist litigation since 2019.
Since January 2015, these twelve judges have completed some of the biggest assizes cases in the history of French criminal law: those of the
Charlie Hebdo
attacks
, Nice or Bataclan.
Nearly 400 correctional and criminal files including more than sixty involving minors in particular.
A feat that is undoubtedly tiring in view of the usual delays in training, some of which can be counted in decades.
The terrorist wave means that each magistrate is in charge of around forty heavy files.
This number is incomparably higher than at the start of the 2010s. During investigation, around 95% of the terrorist portfolio is of a jihadist nature, currently 180 detainees including 5 minors and 30 women, and more broadly 400 cases as well as 700
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