“I listened to them and I heard them.
They actually express their daily difficulties with very strong words.
"While a general strike is preparing this Wednesday among the actors of justice, the Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti defends once again his record early this morning on France Inter.
“We have to know where we come from, what we have done and what we can do, defends the former criminal.
I fixed the emergency.
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At the call of 17 trade unions, the justice goes on strike this Wednesday.
The two main magistrates' unions have filed strike notices and are calling with representatives of clerks and lawyers for “massive postponements” of hearings.
Rallies are scheduled for midday in front of most appellate courts and some courts.
In Paris, the intersyndicale has chosen to converge on Bercy and asks to be received by the Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire to obtain a “much more ambitious budget for justice”.
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The trial of the attacks of November 13, 2015, which is being held at the Paris Court of Appeal, "will start exceptionally at 2 p.m. to allow everyone to participate in the mobilization," said Jean-Louis Périès, the president on Tuesday. of the specially composed Assize Court.
Éric Dupond-Moretti (@E_DupondM) about the mobilization of lawyers, magistrates, clerks: "I listened to them and heard them. [...] We are talking about suffering at work. [...] But you have to know d 'where we came from, what we did and what we can do "# le79inter pic.twitter.com/KemBSjiHyC
- France Inter (@franceinter) December 15, 2021
This unprecedented mobilization comes three weeks after a column published in Le Monde which proclaimed: "We no longer want a justice which does not listen, which reasons only in figures, which times and records everything".
In three weeks, the forum had been signed by 7,550 professionals, including 5,476 magistrates (out of 9,000) and 1,583 registry officials.
"A fairly unprecedented unanimity"
A large number of jurisdictions joined in, by voting at the end of their compulsory general assemblies in December, motions calling for additional resources, some also announcing the end of hearings after 9 p.m. The dispute even won the Court of Cassation: the magistrates of the highest jurisdiction of the judicial order have, in a rare position, denounced Monday "a bloodless justice, which is no longer able to fully exercise its mission in the interest of litigants ”.
The observation made in the gallery is also shared by the judicial hierarchy: in a joint statement, the presidents of the four "conferences", which represent the heads of the courts of appeal (first presidents and attorneys general) and of the courts (presidents and public prosecutors). prosecutors), warn of a "situation that has become untenable".
“For years we have been denouncing suffering at work, justice rendered in degraded mode.
We have reached a breaking point, ”argues Natacha Aubeneau, USM national secretary.
“We feel a fairly unprecedented unanimity.
A whole body that shares the same observation, it has been a very long time since we have seen that, ”adds the president of the Syndicat de la magistrature (SM, classified on the left), Katia Dubreuil.
