The Paris court is faced with a lack of staff, "
the staff of the magistrates of the seat are totally unsuitable
", estimated Friday January 20 Stéphane Noël, president of the first jurisdiction of France, during a press point.
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"
The deficit of magistrates is a reality and weighs on the jurisdiction
," lamented Stéphane Noël, who spoke of a "
severely degraded
" situation. “
We are very, very far from a justice in good working order
”. Scheduled to operate with 366 magistrates, the capital's judicial court has only 338. Of the 1,033 officials needed, only 919 are in post.
At the head of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), Jean-François Bohnert pointed out that the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) had recently praised the PNF's fight against corruption since its creation in 2014, but had concerned "
seriously about the inadequacy of the means allocated to the PNF
".
With 636 proceedings in progress, "
each PNF magistrate has his own portfolio of 45 cases, sometimes a little more
" and as the prosecutors "
operate in pairs
", they are responsible for around 90 files, detailed Jean-François Bohnert.
"That's enough"
During this press briefing, Stéphane Noël returned to "
the unprecedented crisis
" that the judicial institution is currently going through. "
The protest movement
" of magistrates and clerks, who denounce in particular their lack of means, "
is not surprising and by its magnitude constitutes a telluric earthquake which reveals the deep difficulties
", he estimated. “
It took the courage of the youngest to say:
'
enough is enough
'”. "
The reasons for this crisis are known: incessant reforms, unsuitable staff, insufficient consideration of major sociological developments and a quest for impeded quality
", detailed the magistrate.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, for her part, underlined "
the general increase in the activity of the prosecution
service " with, in particular, "
the consequences of the unexpected and unpredictable health crisis
".
The court's public health department has received 20,000 complaints since the start of the coronavirus epidemic and 1,695 of them are being analyzed, she gave as an example.
The economic and financial sections of the prosecution "
are mobilized for previously unknown fraud
", noted Laure Beccuau.
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The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat), also concerned by the question of staffing, is faced with a "
historic number of trials (which) requires an extraordinary organization
", indicated its head, the prosecutor Jean-François Ricard. .
Thirteen terrorism cases are to be tried in 2022.
