In the words of the incumbent Prime Minister, it is “unheard of for 35 years”.
Jean Castex announced Thursday on the set of
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(France 2) that the justice budget was going to be increased by 8% in 2021, with the hiring of "900 staff immediately".
And the resident of Matignon to add: "We are going to find the means to reduce violence".
“We need an efficient police force.
But it seems to me that the quality of the speed of the penal response depends a large part of the solution "facing" the progression of violence ", specifies the head of government.
Recruitment of 900 staff
In 2020, the Justice budget was 7.5 billion euros, an increase of 4% compared to 2019. For Jean Castex, it is the State which “has behaved very badly” for a long time since France is “23rd” in Europe for “resources devoted to justice”.
"Where there is a magistrate in France, I believe there are three in Germany", according to him.
He specified that the State would “still recruit 900 staff immediately” so that the justice system is “faster” and “more efficient”.
Part of the budget will be "directed towards local criminal judges", to deal with "petty crimes" which, "given the traffic jam (of the courts), go completely under the radar, that is say that a form of impunity has settled on all these little facts, ”he added on the France 2 set, where four mayors and the parents of a young man killed in Grenoble in 2018.
An "exceptional budget"
"There will be 10,000 more police officers under Emmanuel Macron's five-year term," said the Prime Minister, also indicating that measures will be taken to strengthen the municipal police.
At the beginning of September, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti had declared that his ministry would benefit from the coming year of an “exceptional budget” to “alleviate the difficulties which have been there for a long time”.
In July, his counterpart from the Economy Bruno Le Maire announced for 2021 staff increases for justice, police and health, and reductions in other ministries, i.e. the total number of State staff in front of remain "stable".
