Alexandre Stobinsky is a magistrate at the Créteil judicial tribunal. Clarisse Serre is a lawyer at the Seine-Saint-Denis bar and a member of the steering committee of the Association of Criminal Lawyers.
Themis is blindfolded but she does not warn the judges not to see those who appear before them.
For almost two years, however, thousands of defendants, defendants but also litigants have only revealed their views in French courts.
A woman tried for murder for a week and whose assize court has never shown the slightest expression behind her mask.
These two minors who are accused of extortion and whose still youthful face has been invisible.
This nurse warned of having shaken an infant and who will have appeared behind dark glasses, like a ghost.
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