This exclusive forum brings together the main unions of the National Police, as well as the lawyer at the Paris bar Thibault de Montbrial and the magistrate Charles Prats.
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Last Wednesday, a police officer paid with his life for his mission of protecting the French, shot dead by a drug dealer he was preparing to control in the city center of Avignon. The suspects arrested this Sunday seem to be very unfavorably known to the police and the judiciary. It was hard to imagine a "first offender" opening fire on an official ...
The day before, Tuesday, Chahinez, 31 years old and mother of three young children, was pursued in the street in Mérignac by her ex-spouse who shot her in the legs at caliber 12 to put her on the ground then sprayed her with flammable liquid and burned her alive until death ensued.
He was sentenced less than a year ago to 18 months in prison, including 9 months with "
probationary suspension
" with in particular a ban on contact with Chahinez, for violence he had already exerted on her.
On Friday, the Créteil police officers were assaulted in front of their police station by an individual trying to run into the officers with his vehicle.
On Saturday, in Fréjus, the police were still targeted by dozens of individuals during a night of riot.
Three officials were injured.
This Monday morning an unspeakable tag apologizing for the murder of the Avignon policeman was even discovered in Lyon ...
These daily news items obviously question the criminal chain at its end, in terms of the effective and real execution of the most appropriate sanctions.
It is this question which undermines the confidence of the French in justice and first of all the confidence of the police who are its armed wing.
There is an urgent need to stop the mad train of delinquency before the whole of society derails definitively.
Let’s listen to our police and gendarmes. The anti-police climate, exacerbated on social networks, obviously strengthens the thugs. The police can no longer see the same perpetrators again and again taunt them after having been referred to court and having emerged free, possibly with obligations that they have nothing to do with. Because it is necessary to have conducted judicial hearings and to see the defendants parade to realize quickly enough that, apart from the actual incarceration, the delinquents usually do not care about the judicial controls and other tests which are put to them. notified. Unfortunately, probationary measures only frighten those who rarely come into contact with justice ...
The tragedy of Mérignac is also revealing: sentenced to 9 months in prison, the killer of Chahinez was released after less than four months of effective imprisonment and he was "
followed
" by the probation service since the beginning of December for a period of two. years. A follow-up that did not prevent him from savagely killing his ex-wife less than five months later.
After these umpteenth dramas and abuses which are part of an infernal spiral of anti-cop hatred and the enslavement of the territories as well as in the very relative effectiveness of alternatives to prison in serious cases, the police and a number of magistrates who experience these cases on a daily basis are once again sounding the alarm: it is urgently necessary to stop the mad train of delinquency before the whole of society derails definitively.
To do this, you need to ask the right questions.
Why such long delays in the execution of prison sentences?
Why these multiple "reductions in sentence"?
Why, until recently, an individual sentenced to two years imprisonment could not spend a single day in detention?
Why so much encouragement for parole at half bar?
We are told that this is to promote the reintegration of detainees and fight against recidivism.
But this is obviously not the only and real answer.
Offenders are almost half the risk of entering detention in France than in the Netherlands or even in the average for European countries.
The real reasons lie in an observation and an ideology. Ideology: prison is bad, we must not lock up the criminal but educate him! The French have been contemplating the ineffectiveness of this concept for far too long ... The observation: there are simply not enough prison places to respond to the delinquency that is undermining our society. France should increase the capacity of its prisons by 50% to simply reach the average of European countries!
This has a very concrete consequence: we are trying to get fewer people into detention, hence the alternatives to prison decided immediately. Le Figaro had pointed out this peculiarity in the excellent article in its column "La Verification" of April 21, where the received idea of the particular severity of French justice had been undermined. The stock - excluding pre-trial detention - of people in prison in France in relation to the population is in reality almost at the level of that of the Netherlands, a country often cited as an example by the “laxists” for its alternative policy to imprisonment. Regarding admissions to prison, delinquents are almost twice less likely to enter detention in France than in the Netherlands or even in the average for European countries.If the occupancy rate of our prisons is exploding, it is unfortunately only because we do not have enough places in relation to the number of delinquents. The same goes for minors, those before whom we appear more and more helpless, especially in the face of "isolated minors" or the increase in ultra-violent fights between gangs: not enough closed and reinforced educational centers, not enough educators. It is necessary to rub shoulders with these young delinquents of 2021 to realize the extreme difficulty of channeling them and of trying to put them back on the right path.those in front of which we appear more and more powerless, in particular vis-a-vis the “isolated minors” or the multiplication of the ultra-violent brawls between gangs: not enough closed and reinforced educational centers, not enough educators. It is necessary to rub shoulders with these young delinquents of 2021 to realize the extreme difficulty of channeling them and of trying to put them back on the right path.those in front of which we appear more and more powerless, in particular vis-a-vis the “isolated minors” or the multiplication of the ultra-violent brawls between gangs: not enough closed and reinforced educational centers, not enough educators. It is necessary to rub shoulders with these young delinquents of 2021 to realize the extreme difficulty of channeling them and of trying to put them back on the right path.
The lack of sufficient places constrains the entire judicial criminal response.
The logic of good public policy would be to bring penitentiary resources to the level of the delinquency actually suffered.
Wanting to "adapt the real" to existing means, that does not work and it is the citizens and the police and gendarmes who are hit with the wall in the face every day.
If we had 100,000 places in prison, the terms of imprisonment would be carried out immediately, the courts would not hesitate to give short sentences to everyday offenders.
This adaptation would obviously have a budgetary cost. But the defense of the freedom and security of our citizens and our police officers is priceless. To "
dare authority
", we know where to go to find the necessary public money, in particular by curbing the tens of billions of euros of social and fiscal fraud. This is good: fraudsters are also delinquents and it is the job of the police and the judiciary to put out of harm's way these “
fraud cartels
”, as long as the necessary political decisions are taken.
If we had 100,000 jail places, the terms of firm imprisonment would be executed immediately, the courts would not hesitate to sentence everyday offenders to short sentences because those sentences would actually be carried out - this is the operating model of the 'Northern Europe that we are bragged about all the time - while today the French judge knows that the sentence to three, four or six months in prison that he pronounces will never be executed in the form decided in the judgment, except in the case of immediate appearance; all these individuals who spoil the lives of citizens and who taunt the police would have the certainty of being effectively imprisoned.
If we had 100,000 prison places, our police and gendarmerie could therefore finally receive the appropriate orders to systematically neutralize delinquent groups, knowing that their procedures would result in truly effective sanctions.
If we had 100,000 prison places, the police and gendarmes would regain confidence in the justice they serve because it would finally have the means to lock up the delinquents who deserve it.
If we had 100,000 prison places, the French would then regain confidence in the justice of their country.
It seems that this is precisely the subject of a bill under discussion in parliament and future discussions of the "Beauvau de la sécurité" ...
Charles PRATS, Delegate of the Professional Association of Magistrates, author of
“
Cartel des Fraudes
”;
Patrice RIBEIRO, Secretary General of Synergie Officiers (National Police);
David LE BARS, General Secretary of the Union of Commissioners of the National Police;
Fabien VANHELMELRYCK, Secretary General of Alliance Police Nationale;
Olivier VARLET, Secretary General of UNSA Police;
Thibault de MONTBRIAL, Lawyer at the Paris Bar, President of the Circle for Reflection on Internal Security, author of
“
Osons Authority
”
.
