Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti will unveil on Monday the "major projects" he intends to implement to reform the National School of Magistrates.
This reform risks straining a little more the already stormy relations between the magistrates and the Keeper of the Seals.
Eric Dupond-Moretti is to announce this Monday his tracks to reform the training of judges and prosecutors within the National School of Magistrates.
This is the first major project for the new Minister of Justice, but the climate between the magistrates and the Chancellery is currently very tense.
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As he has already said, Eric Dupond-Moretti would like to end what he calls the "Republic of judges".
According to him, a clear separation between the magistrates of the seat (the judges) and those of the public prosecutor's office (the prosecutors) is necessary.
Their training on the same benches would lead to a form of "self-help", where lawyers do not find their place.
The ENM "unable" to properly train future magistrates
Two years ago, the lawyer Dupond-Moretti proposed in a book to suppress the National School of Magistrates, "unable" to properly train future magistrates.
Young people would be "[embedded] in a mold from which they will never come out," he said then.
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Today Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti does not intend to abolish the National School of Magistrates but to reform it in depth.
The atmosphere is electric with the magistrates since he announced on Friday the opening of an administrative investigation into the National Financial Prosecutor's Office.
This concerns suspicions of breach of loyalty, in particular in the so-called "fadettes" case where the lawyer himself had lodged a complaint, before taking up the post of minister.
On the side of the magistrates' unions and the Superior Council of the Judiciary, indignation is unanimous.