• The mayor of Nantes wrote to the Keeper of the Seals to obtain an "emergency plan" for Nantes.

  • The city suffers from a significant deficit of magistrates and justice personnel.

  • The Minister of the Interior promised police reinforcements for Nantes on Tuesday.

The meeting organized on Tuesday between Johanna Rolland, PS mayor of Nantes, and Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, had partly borne fruit.

The State had indeed undertaken to assign additional police officers and CRS to the City of the Dukes in response to the rise in acts of violence in the public space.

But the elected socialist wants to go further: she wants to obtain from the State additional means of justice for the city.

This Thursday, she wrote to the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, to ask him for an “emergency plan allowing an increase in the number of magistrates, clerks and justice personnel”.

“Between 2019 and 2021, the number of cases increased by 10%.

We are in the most degraded situation in France where, for the most serious and complex cases, we wait several years before considering going to court.

Such delays call into question the credibility of justice and the very meaning of court decisions is questioned,” explains Johanna Rolland. 

The lack of means regularly denounced

“The current means of justice in Nantes are neither adapted to the demographic evolution, nor to that of delinquency and crime”, continues the elected official in this letter.

The professionals of the Nantes court regularly denounce the lack of means in their services and the lengthening of the criminal response times.

The announced reinforcement of national and municipal police officers is likely to increase the volume of cases to be processed.

The public prosecutor and the president of the judicial court of Nantes had themselves spoken in recent months to express their alarm at the situation in Nantes.

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