Scheduled to operate with 366 magistrates, the capital's Judicial Court only has 338. The deficit may not seem huge said like that, but even running at full speed, the workload would remain impressive.
For example, with 636 ongoing proceedings, "each PNF magistrate has his own portfolio of 45 cases, sometimes a little more" and as the prosecutors "operate in pairs", they are in charge of around 90 cases, details Jean-François Bohnert, head of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office.
"The staff of the magistrates of the seat are totally unsuitable", estimated Friday Stéphane Noël, president of the first court of France, during a press point.
"The deficit of magistrates is a reality and weighs on the jurisdiction", he lamented, referring to a "severely degraded" situation.
“We are very, very far from a justice in good working order”.
20,000 complaints to the public health center since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic
"The protest movement" of magistrates and clerks, who denounce in particular their lack of means, "is not surprising and by its magnitude constitutes a telluric earthquake which reveals the deep difficulties", he estimated. "It took the courage of the youngest to say: 'enough is enough'". "The reasons for this crisis are known: incessant reforms, unsuitable staff, insufficient consideration of major sociological developments and a quest for impeded quality", detailed the magistrate.
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, for her part, underlined "the general increase in the activity of the prosecution service" with, in particular, "the consequences of the unexpected and unpredictable health crisis". The court's public health department has received 20,000 complaints since the start of the coronavirus epidemic and 1,695 of them are being analyzed, she gave as an example. The economic and financial sections of the prosecution "are mobilized for previously unknown fraud", she also notes.
The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat), also concerned by the question of staffing, is faced with a "historic number of trials (which) requires an extraordinary organization", indicated its head, the prosecutor Jean-François Ricard. .
Thirteen terrorism cases are to be tried in 2022, while these trials often last several weeks, or even several months, as is the case for that of the attacks of November 13.
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