• The Nantes court has 51 full-time magistrates.

  • A report by the National Conference of Judicial Courts estimates the minimum additional staff to meet needs at 24.

  • If we had to follow the European average, Nantes would need 186 judges.

Six months after the remarkable speech of the public prosecutor, the president of the judicial court of Nantes, Franck Bielitzki, in turn, denounced this Monday the lack of means of the court of Nantes, reputed to know one of the most degraded situations in France.

A position far from trivial six weeks before the presidential election.

According to a “national benchmark” established by the National Conference of Presidents of Judicial Courts (CNPTJ), there is a minimum shortage of 24 full-time magistrate positions for the Nantes judicial court to be able to meet its workload.

Not to mention the agent and clerk positions that go with it.

“What would 24 additional magistrates change?

explains Franck Bieltizki.

It is, for example, a judge of freedoms and detention in addition.

A judge of family affairs and more to allow us to finally judge cases within a reasonable time: today it is fifteen months of waiting for alimony, fifteen months for visiting rights and accommodation.

It also means an additional investigating judge to deal with organized crime cases.

These are four additional magistrates to fill the criminal court: we have 240 judicial information files that have been in our closets for several years without being able to hear them.

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"This is not a pharaonic request"

The president of the Nantes court insists.

“These are not means of comfort.

This is not a pharaonic request.

This is a reasonable and perhaps minimalist objective given the changing demographics.

The understaffing rate in Nantes is 42% when the national average is 35%.

We are understaffed among the understaffed.

Franck Bielitzki is aware that the electoral calendar will not allow rapid decision-making.

“We are not asking that these 24 positions be created immediately.

But it is important that the direction to be taken is clear.

I hope that the State has taken the measure of what justice should be: a public service but also a judicial authority.

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The Nantes court today has 51 full-time judges.

“To be up to the European average, which is 17.7 professional magistrates per 100,000 inhabitants, we would need 186 judges in Nantes, recalls Franck Bieltizki.

We are very far from it since we are only asking for 24 more to reach a total of 75 magistrates.

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“We make the victims bear an unacceptable wait.

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“Delays produce other delays and situations that are more and more complicated to manage, adds Nantes prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul.

We take a considerable amount of time to respond to legitimate requests from citizens who want to know the status of their files.

And while we're doing that, we're not dealing with the bottom.

If we absorbed these stocks of files that we have everywhere and that we drag like a millstone, perhaps we would be more effective in our judicial response.

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“We regularly have summons against the State for denial of justice for the delay in rendering a judicial decision, adds Franck Bielitzki.

We make victims bear an unacceptable wait.

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