Filmed trials, rights reinforced from the preliminary investigation, lawyers' secrecy widened and still end of automatic reductions of sentences… The flagship bill of the Minister of Justice should be voted in the afternoon on Tuesday at first reading accompanied by 'an organic component by the National Assembly.
If the debates were disrupted due to the health crisis, they should also be in the hemicycle.
The left should vote against or abstain from this reform seen as "flattering public opinion".
LR deputies, they point to the “Coué method” of confidence, have yet to decide on their positioning.
While the objective of this text is to win back the French, of whom one in two no longer has confidence in the judicial institution according to the polls, the government has mainly found itself in recent weeks to manage the grumbling of the police after the murder of Brigadier Eric Masson on a point of deal.
Eric Dupond-Moretti himself called not to “oppose justice and the police”, while thousands of police officers gathered on Wednesday in front of the Palais Bourbon demanded a firmer criminal response.
The demands of the police which were relayed in the hemicycle in particular by Eric Ciotti (LR), who pleaded for floor sentences.
Recording and television broadcasting of trials
"They did not work" under the right, retorted the Minister of Justice who, however, added to the bill various measures promised by the Prime Minister or the Minister of the Interior after the tragedy in Avignon. such as a 30-year safety sentence for those sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime against a police officer or a gendarme, the end of reminders of the law deemed ineffective, as well as a limitation of sentence reductions for assailants of forces of the order.
Beyond that, this text proposes a series of structuring provisions which have taken a back seat.
Thus the limitation in principle to two years of preliminary inquiries to speed up proceedings, accompanied by their opening to adversarial proceedings, were unanimously validated.
Same unanimity of deputies in favor of strengthening defense secrecy, to better supervise searches of the home or office of the lawyer, and interceptions of communication. But the vote on an LREM amendment allowing the presence of a lawyer during searches of a suspect's home made the police unions jump. Concord has returned to add to the bill the forthcoming creation of a “single national pole with specialized magistrates, in order to help elucidate serial or unsolved crimes.
Another novelty is the recording and broadcasting of trials on television. Even if some fear a lesser "serenity" of the debates for a reason of public interest, the deputies added guarantees: the president of the hearing will be able to stop or suspend the recording for any reason, and the diffusion will be accompanied by "d 'pedagogical explanations. "