The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti wished for a “
regular dialogue
” with the magistrates and clerks he received at the ministry on Friday, after the publication of a forum denouncing their working conditions and their growing discomfort. About thirty of them - authors of the platform, magistrates of the bench and the prosecution, judges of application of sentences, investigating judges ... - were received at Place Vendôme for "
a little more than three hours
", a declared the minister to the press at the end of this meeting. He said he had heard "
a moving testimony, very strong, in particular on their working conditions, on the workload
".
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“
I wanted to have a regular dialogue with them.
The institutional dialogue with the Chancellery takes place of course with the heads of courts and jurisdictions, and without denying this absolutely essential dialogue, it is essential that we also be as close as possible to the field.
We will therefore see each other very soon,
”added Mr. Dupond-Moretti.
This column, published Tuesday by the daily Le Monde and originally signed by 3,000 magistrates (a third of the profession), now has 5,500 signatures of magistrates and clerks, said the authors of the platform when they left the ministry.
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In a brief statement, they explained that they did not have the “
will to represent
” the 5550 signatories and that they had reiterated before the Minister of Justice “
the observations on the ground
” which appear in the forum. "
We hope that the alert we have issued will be heard, and that we will perceive significant changes in our courts,
" they also declared. The Keeper of the Seals will receive on this subject Monday at 4.30 p.m. the presidents of the conferences of heads of courts and jurisdictions. He had also invited, Tuesday, professional associations of magistrates. But the latter said in a statement Friday that they had refused this "
initiative consisting in summoning (them) in haste
".
