The investigation into the search for the causes of the death of Marie Truchet, the judge of Nanterre who succumbed in full hearing on October 18, is not closed.
If the prosecutor has had the autopsy report for several weeks, “the investigations, including on a medical level, are still in progress”, indicates this Friday the prosecution.
These include shedding light on the judge's medical condition before her heart gave out as she presided over the immediate appearances hearing.
The magistrate, carried away in these terrible conditions at the age of 44, suffered from a pathology whose consequences can cause cardiac arrest.
In any case, still according to what the prosecution indicates, the autopsy report "highlighted significant health problems in connection with the death".
But there is still a lack of additional examinations and investigations into the victim's medical history, in particular a visit to the hospital three days before the tragedy.
Marie Truchet reportedly went to an emergency department, before turning back after waiting for her turn for three hours.
At the same time, the CHSCT commission of inquiry is continuing, with a meeting scheduled for the coming days.
The challenge is to determine the possible impact of working conditions on the death of the magistrate.
Understaffing and overwork
Whatever the conclusions of the investigation by the prosecution and that of the CHSCT, the death of the judge has shone the spotlight on the worrying situation of the Nanterre judicial court, where the glaring lack of staff reflects on the daily life of magistrates already overworked.
To express their support for their colleagues, the two highest magistrates in the country went to Nanterre on Thursday.
Christophe Soulard and François Molins, respectively first president of the Court of Cassation and general prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, spent two hours on the spot and exchanged with about fifty magistrates.
“They listened to us”, commented one of the participants at the end of this meeting, stressing that “finally, we take the measure of the difficulties of justice in general and of the court of Nanterre in particular”.
"We feel suffering, functioning in survival or degraded mode", in the words of François Molins to AFP.
The magistrates' unions called for a day of strike this Tuesday, November 22, one year after the call of 3,000 magistrates and clerks, published after the suicide of one of their colleagues from the North.