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Fire in the prefecture of Puy-en-Velay: the trial disturbed by the lawyers' strike

2020-01-20T13:43:12.646Z


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No yellow vest came to support them this Monday morning at the entrance to the Puy-en-Velay courthouse. And still no lawyer to represent them. After a morning marked by the passing of arms between striking lawyers on the one hand and the president of the criminal court on the other, the trial of the four alleged arsonists of the prefecture of Haute-Loire has still not started.

Strike against pension reform, lawyers representing defendants aged 21 to 37, who are to be tried for throwing flaming Molotov cocktail-type projectiles that led to the fire in the building, requested a referral of the trial. A request dismissed by the president of the criminal court, Nizar Samlal, which led to several adjournments of the hearing and the appointment of three new officially appointed lawyers, the fourth accused - the oldest - having failed to appear at the trial.

One of the lawyers symbolically removed his robe

This decision, the three newly appointed lawyers did not accept it at all. They, in their turn, demanded at the end of the morning the postponement of the trial for a day "time to prepare the defense of the defendants and to take cognizance of all the documents in the file," explained Élodie Villesèche-Sauron to the president. of the court. “Are we going to prefer media coverage to the rule of law? Asked the lawyer of the Puy bar. We are in a nauseous context and they confront me with my ethics, it is unacceptable. "

In the box of defendants, "three vulgar quidams" in the words of the chairman Jacques Soullier, wait without blinking, head down, without really understanding what is playing out before their eyes. "It is the future of our profession that is at stake," insist the lawyers present in large numbers at the hearing. But the president of the court remains adamant. After a new suspension, he announces that the trial will resume at 3.30 p.m., without anyone really knowing what will happen next, or which lawyers will be able to represent the defendants since the three black dresses designated by the chairman have all asked " to be relieved of their designation ".

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One of them, Me Cédric Augeyre, even symbolically took off his dress before the president of the court before leaving the room, believing that it would be impossible to assess such a file in four hours. “I withdraw from this trial. It is a gesture that I regret in principle but that had to be done. Three new lawyers should therefore be appointed this afternoon, but they could also request a referral.

Source: leparis

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