Words that do not pass and that create a shockwave in the judiciary. On Tuesday, Raphaël Balland, prosecutor of Béziers and president of the National Conference of Prosecutors of the Republic, took the floor to castigate, on behalf of his fellow prosecutors, "this opposition that we would like to create between the independence of justice on the one hand and, on the other hand, the action of the police, (which) makes no sense. First of all, this is incorrect, it's stupid and it's dangerous, and that's not, no doubt, what Mr. Veaux (director general of the national police, Editor's note) meant, I'm sure," he hammered on RTL in the sense of appeasement.
The day before, in a scathing statement, the Superior Council of the Judiciary recalled that, "by virtue of the principle of separation of powers, a founding principle of the rule of law, the judicial authority is the only legitimate one to decide whether or not to place in pre-trial detention the persons presented to it in ...
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