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“Your children are afraid that you are going to kill their mother!”: in the Marseille court, the chilling story of domestic violence

2024-02-08T18:44:59.000Z

Highlights: The 5th correctional chamber has only been dealing with this type of case for ten years, even before the creation of the specialized centers. “We had specialized jurisdictions for organized crime, terrorism or finance, with a very high degree of technicality, but these are ultimately disputes which concern few people. With the VIF centers, we finally have specialized courts for mass litigation,” enthuses Anne Tertian, president of the 5th criminal chamber of the Marseille judicial court, dedicated to intra-family violence.


REPORT - The 5th correctional chamber has only been dealing with this type of case for ten years, even before the creation of the specialized centers.


Marseille

“We had specialized jurisdictions for organized crime, terrorism or finance, with a very high degree of technicality, but these are ultimately disputes which concern few people.

With the VIF centers, we finally have specialized courts for mass litigation

,” enthuses Anne Tertian, president of the 5th criminal chamber of the Marseille judicial court, dedicated to intra-family violence.

For this magistrate, who has devoted herself to this subject for several years, the upcoming creation of these new centers, which bring together magistrates of the seat and the public prosecutor's office, will make it possible to improve already existing practices, but which until now were based on

" the D system and the good will of people

.

A fallible system, as demonstrated by her colleague from the prosecution Agnès Rostoker, citing the feminicide of Mérignac, emblematic incarnation of these

“holes in the racket”

of the judicial system with dramatic consequences: the author…

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Source: lefigaro

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