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Pension reform: Éric Dupond-Moretti calls on prosecutors to be firm

2023-03-22T18:52:56.873Z


Offenses committed against elected officials and the police must be a priority, insists the Minister of Justice.


The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti called for "

a systematic and rapid criminal response

" against those arrested on the sidelines of rallies against the pension reform for "

serious disturbances to public order

", "

attacks on persons and property

" and "

acts of intimidation and threats against elected officials

".

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In a "

dispatch

" sent to the public prosecutors and the public prosecutors on Saturday March 18 and of which AFP learned this Wednesday, the Keeper of the Seals calls on the magistrates to "get closer to the

prefectural authority

" so that that -ci "

keep them informed of the planned events and the means implemented to secure the demonstrations and preserve public order

".

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Protection of elected officials and law enforcement

You will pay particular attention to the offenses which would be committed against elected officials

”, insisted the minister in his note.

"

Whenever the circumstances of the commission of the facts justify it, you will appreciate the possibility of retaining the qualifications

" of the article "

which provides that is punished by ten years' imprisonment and a fine of 150,000 euros the fact of use threats, violence or commit any other act of intimidation

” against an elected official, he recalled.

"

You will ensure that you provide the procedures conducted in this context with a systematic and rapid criminal response

", underlined Xavier Dupond-Moretti.

"

The most serious acts, in particular violence committed against elected officials or members of the police, must give rise to referrals in the context of immediate appearances, appearances by report, and appearances on prior admission of guilt

,” he added.

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Penalties of prohibition of stay (...) or prohibition to appear in certain places seem particularly appropriate.

Xavier Dupond-Moretti, Minister of Justice

"

The other modes of criminal response, in particular the alternatives to prosecution, will be confined to the least serious and isolated facts

", wished the Minister.

He invited the magistrates to request “

additional penalties to avoid the repetition of the facts

”.

"

The penalties of banning stay (...) or banning from appearing in certain places seem particularly appropriate

," he said.

"

The importance or the multiplication of possible violent outbursts can have a heavy impact on the prosecution

", noted Xavier Dupond-Moretti, inviting the public prosecutors subject to a "

temporarily increased load of activity

" to delegate to courts "

less concerned

.

In a press release published Monday, March 20, two days after the minister's "

dispatch

" to the prosecutors, the Syndicate of the Judiciary (SM, listed on the left) had demanded that the judicial authority be "not

at the service of the repression of the movement society

”.

Our place is not in the command rooms because by associating ourselves with the police authorities upstream of the judicial response, we contribute to the penalization of the social movement and we deprive ourselves of our capacity for control downstream.

Our place is not at the side of the prefects to prepare the repression of the demonstrators but to protect the litigants in the exercise of their citizenship.

Our control of all procedures initiated during events must be demanding and meticulous

“, had indicated the SM.

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Since March 16, the date of recourse to 49.3 by the government for the adoption of the pension reform, several hundred demonstrators have been arrested in France, their police custody most often resulting in a classification without further action.

Thus in Paris, according to the latest consolidated report from the prosecution, 425 people were placed in police custody during the first three evenings of spontaneous demonstrations, from Thursday to Saturday, of which only 52 were prosecuted at the end.

Source: lefigaro

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