• 3,000 magistrates and a hundred clerks denounced the deterioration of their working conditions and the lack of time to process cases, in an article published in the daily

    Le Monde

    .

  • The magistrates' unions denounce the "contempt" of the Keeper of the Seals who had recently considered that justice was now "repaired".

  • To try to calm the tensions, Eric Dupond-Moretti must receive several signatories from the platform.

Former criminal lawyer, Eric Dupond-Moretti has succeeded in turning the judicial world against him. After the lawyers, who are mobilizing to defend their professional secrecy, it is the magistrates' turn to express their dissatisfaction. In a column published Wednesday in

Le Monde

, more than 3,280 of them - out of 9,090 - let it be known that they do not want "any more of a justice which does not listen, which reasons only in figures, which times everything and records all ". Hearings overloaded or even dispatched, sick leaves which are multiplying ... The signatories denounce "a justice which mistreats litigants, but also those who work for its functioning, clerks and magistrates".

Many magistrates have strangled themselves upon hearing the Minister of Justice affirm that justice had been "repaired" during the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron and that it should now be modernized.

"The minister lives at the top of an ivory tower and refuses to see the reality of what justice is today," said Céline Parisot, president of the Union Syndicale des Magistrates.

"The staff carry justice at arm's length and there, they can no longer.

They are tired of the contempt of this ministry for their working conditions, ”she adds, stressing that the magistrates simply want“ to have the means to work ”.

"The magistrates are exhausted"

Her counterpart from the Syndicat de la magistrature, Katia Dubreuil, said nothing else. “The magistrates are exhausted on the one hand by their working conditions, on the other hand by the loss of meaning that it entails to dispense justice in these conditions. To realize this, it suffices to attend the hearings of immediate appearances. To absorb a small part of the emergency activity, the magistrates judge, for hours on end, sometimes until late at night, dozens and dozens of cases. We have to move quickly so that the pile of files placed in front of the president begins to slowly decrease.

The government, through its successive reforms, wants "to bring the" flow "of procedures into a judicial machine which does not have sufficient means to handle all cases", summarizes Katia Dubreuil.

And for many magistrates, the States General of Justice, launched on October 18, will not resolve the problems denounced.

Those of the court of Lorient voted unanimously a motion in which they express their refusal to participate in what they qualify as "useless and ineffective exercise".

"The quality of life at work, working conditions, the justice budget ... None of these subjects is mentioned in the framework of the States General, which pisses colleagues even more", regrets Céline Parisot.

Announcements in the coming days

And the president of the USM noted: “The subjects discussed are how we simplify, how we reorganize… The colleagues cannot take it any longer, they do not want us to simplify or reorganize.

They just want us to leave them alone and give them time to work.

"

To try to calm the tensions, Eric Dupond-Moretti must receive this Friday, place Vendôme, "a certain number" of signatories: magistrates of the seat and of the public prosecutor's office, judges of enforcement of sentences and investigating judges for that it is "eclectic and representative", he explained on LCI.

But this outstretched hand will undoubtedly not be enough to resolve the problem of magistrates' malaise.

"There will be announcements in the coming days," warns the president of the Syndicat de la magistrature.

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