Means to fight against the justice crisis, the government has put on the table this week, in the form of sixty measures.
“An important step” for François Molins, the attorney general at the Court of Cassation, questioned on RTL this Tuesday morning.
But they will not solve another threat to the profession, the "false trials" against justice, denounces François Molins.
“What should not exist is to discredit an institution that is doing its job.
We can criticize everything, what I dispute are the false trials, which come to accuse a justice that is only doing its job.
These are criticisms that can violate the separation of powers, we have never seen the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM) seize so often to be moved by attacks on the institution.
(..) Justice must be independent of politicians,” declared François Molins.
#Justice: "Criticism is allowed but we must not discredit an institution that is only doing its job. Justice must be independent of politics"
François Molins, Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, guest of @amandine_begot in #RTLMatin pic .twitter.com/lHOuuWRqo1
– RTL France (@RTLFrance) January 10, 2023
And to cite as an example, the press releases of "heads of the Court of Cassation or the Judicial Council which targeted, for example, demonstrations by police officers with ministers in front of the National Assembly against the alleged laxity of judges, or interventions by officials of policies during instructions”.
"Keeper of the Seals, certainly not"
The day before, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, had welcomed an “important step” which “will have to be continued” after the announcement of a “new budgetary effort” within the framework of the justice plan presented by the Keeper of the Seals.
The highest magistrates of France, the first president of the Court of Cassation Christophe Soulard and the general prosecutor François Molins, expressed themselves during the traditional solemn audience of return, in front of a vast assembly including in particular the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond- Moretti and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.
But in six months, on June 30, François Molins will officially leave office after more than forty years of dispensing justice.
For a well-deserved retirement, or new functions?
"Keeper of the Seals, certainly not," he swept away.