The placement in pre-trial detention of a magistrate, an extremely rare decision

The indictment of a magistrate and even more so her placement in pre-trial detention, as was done during the night from Friday to Saturday by judge Hélène Gerhards in Nice, are exceptional decisions. This incarceration is even

, according to a magistrate from the West.

According to research carried out by AFP and public information on the subject, judges have taken this measure for four judicial magistrates since the year 2000, concerning a body which had around 7,000 members at the time and 8,500 Today.

Here are the 4 cases identified:

In 2003,

, first deputy of the Bobigny public prosecutor's office, was imprisoned in the so-called Sentier II corruption case. He spent eight months in pre-trial detention, before being sentenced on appeal in 2011 to three years in prison, including twenty months, and a fine of 30,000 euros.

In 2008,

, then deputy prosecutor of Montpellier, spent three months in pre-trial detention, suspected of corruption for having informed a dentist of the progress of a procedure concerning him for payment. Previously known for having led the investigation into the Festina case of doping in cycling, he was sentenced in 2012 to a one-year suspended prison sentence. He died in 2019.

In 2011, a judge from Béthune,

, was imprisoned for three months for corruption, accused of having paid for complacent decisions. He will be sentenced on appeal in 2018 to five years of deprivation of his civic and civil rights.

In 2014, an investigating judge from Mayotte,

, was indicted for rape and imprisoned for four days. Thursday, he was sentenced on appeal to ten years' imprisonment by the Val-de-Marne Assize Court.

For an investigating magistrate, the case of Hélène Gerhards

, an island territory of 340,000 inhabitants where

.

,” he says.