Magistrates' unions denounced Monday the announcement by the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti of the establishment of a "
probative criminal warning
" to replace the reminder of the law, qualifying this device as a "
coup de com
" . This warning, which appears in the bill "
for confidence in the judicial institution
", will be issued "
by the justice which, for a year, will put the accused under surveillance
", explained Eric Dupond-Moretti in a interview at Le Figaro. "
In the case of another offense during this period, they will then be judged for the two offenses, the new and the old,
" said the Minister of Justice. This device, he added, should make it possible to "
break with the evanescent character
"of the reminder to the law,"
too weak to be effective
", and will be effective"
from January 1, 2023
".
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For the Union Syndicale des Magistrates (USM, majority), it is "to
change so as not to change anything
".
“
We play a lot on semantics.
It's just a political communication operation to deal with a feeling of impunity which does not exist
", reacted to AFP Cécile Mamelin, vice-president of the USM, evoking a"
totally confused mechanism
" .
The Syndicat de la magistrature (SM, classified on the left) criticizes the minister for not having consulted professionals in the field on the interests at stake in terms of alternatives to prosecution.
"
Fantasy of judicial laxity
"
In a
press
release, the union expresses its "
disgust
" at "
seeing Eric Dupond-Moretti, with a bang (...) announce yet another reform based on the fantasy of judicial laxity and reassure inexpensively by announcing a measure of surveillance which is not one but tightens the grip of an automatic penal response disconnected from reality
”.
During a trip to Nanterre, the Minister of Justice replied that "
the field magistrates
" he met were not "
on the same wavelength as certain leaders of certain unions
".
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"
This new measure is not the fruit of a ministerial whim, it is a work of the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons (of the ministry) and of the prosecutors in the National Conference of the Prosecutors of the Republic
", a- he clarified to the press.
In 2019, 260,000 reminders of the law had been issued, or 21% of the criminal response.
The end of recalls to the law, an alternative measure to prosecution, had been voted in May by the deputies within the framework of the bill "
for the confidence in the judicial institution
".
This text will be examined in the Senate at first reading from Tuesday.
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