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 and CRS in response to the rise in drug trafficking and acts of violence in the public space in the City of the Dukes. But the elected socialist wants to go further: she wants to obtain from the State additional means of justice. 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 one of the most degraded situations in France where the most serious and complex cases 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.