While voices are rising to demand a change in the law after the Sarah Halimi and Viry-Châtillon cases, the Judicial Council rose up on Sunday against the "questioning" of justice. On Europe 1, Sophie Legrand, general secretary of the magistrate's union, denounces a weakening of the justice system in the face of political power.
Several thousand people gathered on Sunday in France and especially in Paris, at the call of citizens' collectives and representatives of the Jewish community, to challenge the lack of trial after the murder of Sarah Halimi in 2017. Jewish sexagenarian was judged criminally irresponsible by the Court of Cassation.
While confirming the anti-Semitic nature of the crime, the highest judicial court had confirmed the abolition of the discernment of the murderer, taken from a "delirious puff" during the facts, according to seven experts consulted.
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"We find ourselves constantly changing the laws in favor of a single case"
This decision aroused great emotion and a very strong incomprehension within a part of the French Jewish community and pushed Emmanuel Macron to demand "a change of the law". Reaction of the Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) Sunday which rebelled against "the questioning" of justice in two "painful" cases, with reference to the challenge of the judgment of the Court of Cassation in the file Sarah Halimi and the verdict at the Viry-Châtillon trial.
"We find ourselves constantly changing the laws in favor of a single case which is certainly dramatic and atrocious, and that, we do not deny at all, it is normal that the victim lived this decision in a violent way . But do we have to change the law every time we have a type of case of this kind? I do not know ", reacted Sunday on Europe 1 Sophie Legrand, general secretary of the magistrate's union .
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"A drop in the balance between the different powers"
"In the Sarah Halimi case, we are already talking about completely reviewing the mechanism on criminal irresponsibility for mental disorder, or even changing the law with regard to mental disorders that would be caused by a long-standing addiction to cannabis. has the feeling that there is a decline in the balance between the various powers and authorities. Faced with a weak judicial authority, political power has a boulevard ", she continued.
For his part, the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti announced on Sunday the presentation "at the end of May" in the Council of Ministers of a bill aimed at "filling" a "legal vacuum", after the Court of Cassation confirmed the criminal irresponsibility of the murderer of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian who was killed in 2017 in Paris. This announcement is made following a request from President Emmanuel Macron.