"The police without justice is totalitarianism": Dupond-Moretti defends the judicial institution

The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti defended the judicial institution, accused of laxity by certain unions of police and elected officials, estimating in an interview with the

that "the police without justice is totalitarianism". "The problem of the police, it is justice!", Had judged Wednesday the general secretary of the union of police force Alliance during the rally of thousands of police officers in front of the National Assembly. "This statement is false and it is serious," said Eric Dupond-Moretti in the

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"The police without justice is totalitarianism; justice without the police is impotence. These two institutions deserve the respect of all republicans", continued the minister, who also considered legitimate the presence of his colleague from the Interior Gérald Darmanin at the police gathering.

Refusal to restore the "minimum penalties"

The Minister of Justice also recalled part of the quantified assessment of the criminal response that he had already taken on Tuesday in front of the deputies: "in 2019, 132,000 firm prison sentences were handed down, against 120,000 in 2015".

"In the Nordahl Lelandais case, the general counsel had requested 30 years of imprisonment; it was a popular jury which sentenced him to 20 years. Is it lax?", Launched the former lawyer.

He also invoked the figures to justify his refusal to restore the "minimum sentences" demanded by the police unions for those who attack members of the police.

Eric Dupond-Moretti defends the "historic" budget of justice

Created at the start of Nicolas Sarkozy's mandate in 2007, they provided for an irreducible minimum sentence for a certain number of felonies and misdemeanors and were abolished under the presidency of François Hollande in 2014. "If we look at the sentences that were imposed pronounced during this period (between 2007 and 2014), we see that they were significantly lower than those pronounced after the deletion, "said Eric Dupond-Moretti. The minister also, once again, defended the "historic" budget of Justice, which "has jumped by 21% in four years and by 8% just this year when we reach 9090 magistrates".