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Crime, violence: the Institute for Justice attacks the State for "security inaction"

2022-05-19T14:33:46.794Z


The association, which advocates a reform of the judicial system, regrets the absence of any "serious and profound questioning of the action of the State in terms of security."


On May 10, a military doctor was stabbed in the throat in front of his children, near a college in Marseille.

The author of the stab wounds would have told the investigators to have

"acted in the name of God"

, also evoking

"the devil"

.

Two days earlier, Antoine Alléno, the son of the famous chef Yannick Alléno, died in the middle of Paris, hit by an offender already well known to the police and justice services for various cases.

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On Tuesday, the investigating judge in charge of the case of the murder of a Bayonne bus driver decided to reclassify the proceedings against the two main suspects, 24 and 25 years old.

They are now on trial for "

willful violence in a meeting that resulted in death without intention to give it

" before a criminal court.

In April, the Bayonne prosecutor's office had nevertheless requested the referral to the assizes for "

aggravated intentional homicide

".

A decision very badly received by part of public opinion and the political class.

On Twitter, the deputy (LR) of the Alpes-Maritimes Éric Ciotti, for example, said to himself

“stunned by this decision!”

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The drop too much for the Institute for Justice (IPJ) which announced this Thursday, by means of a press release, that it had filed an appeal with the Paris administrative court against the French State for “

security inaction

”.

The association, which advocates reforms in the judicial system, considers that "

no serious and profound questioning of the action of the State in terms of security has taken place

", given the current events which “

a swarm of miscellaneous facts and that the number of attacks has multiplied by seven in 40 years

”.

According to the IPJ,

"the lack of prison places, the weakness of the means of Justice, the encouragement of an ideologized Justice are all roots of insecurity,

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The association marked on the right regrets all the more the weakness of the State to act on the security problem that

"the right to security and safety is a fundamental right guaranteed in particular by article 2 of the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen (ECHR)”

.

In addition, the IPJ demands that Justice compel the State to "

build 30,000 places of prison in emergency

", to "

repeal the laws of adjustments of sentence

", as well as to "

expel criminals of foreign nationality

".

Source: lefigaro

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