Judge under the threat – Liberation
Judges under police protection, magistrates intimidated by email and on social networks, prosecutors discovering letters of threats on their windshields … Are we in Latin America, Italy in the 1970s, in Texas under Donald Trump? No, we are in France today, while criminal gangs of drug trafficking and political leaders suspected of embezzlement agree to find Too independent justice. Forgotten, the justice « too lax », the parquet « woke », the « naive » system. After Marine Le Pen’s judgment, Prime Minister François Bayrou said « »disturbed by the judgment statement». Unfortunately, he was not the only one to imitate the elements of language of elected officials from the far right. The leader of rebellious France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, estimated that « The decision to remove an elected official should return to the people », While Gérald Darmanin, not yet appointed Keeper of the Seals, had condemned the indictment, ruminating that« »It would be deeply shocking May Marine Le Pen be deemed ineligible ”. To these speeches of distrust are grafted the rise of drug traffickers and Standardization of violence in public space.
Result: more than one hundred and fifty magistrates are in one way or another threatened in their daily lives. This climate of permanent insecurity is simply unacceptable, because there can be no democracy without independent justice and there can be no confidence in justice rendered without a democracy respecting the rule of law. The weakening of our judicial institutions makes immense service to criminals of all hair and populists of all kinds, while the French wish on the contrary a strengthening of public services so that justice can be rendered equitably. The famous « Zero tolerance » Promised by many rulers, including Gérald Darmanin, must start there.
