The Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti on Tuesday rejected any laxity of justice on the eve of a police demonstration. – Jacques Witt / SIPA
On the eve of a demonstration of police officers who demand more severity from the justice system, the Minister of Justice wanted to put the dots on the i’s. “That the police unions demand that the police be respected in our country, of course (…) Justice, too, deserves respect. Police and justice are in the same “republican boat”, “launched Eric Dupond-Moretti, at the start of the debates on his bill for” confidence “in the judicial institution.
This text provides in particular for the end of credits for the reduction of automatic sentences, a component that should be tightened during the session for those convicted of acts of violence committed against the police.
113,000 years of imprisonment pronounced between 2016 and 2019
The minister indicated that he could spend Wednesday “greet the police”, who have planned to gather near the Palais Bourbon to demand more criminal severity, two weeks after the murder of Brigadier Eric Masson in Avignon.
“I hear today, in the face of criticism, to be the lawyer of justice, too easily guilty, in the eyes of some, of all the evils of our society”, added the former tenor of the bar, dismantling, figures in support, the idea that justice is “lax”. Some 113,000 years of imprisonment were pronounced by the courts on average between 2016 and 2019, against 89,000 between 2001 and 2005, for example.
Possibility to film the trials
“If some politicians have deliberately chosen to cast shame on the judicial institution to promise the French the mirage of a society without any violence or crime, I myself make the choice of truth and action” , supported Eric Dupond-Moretti.
In addition to the end of automatic sentence reductions, the bill provides for the ability to film trials and better supervise preliminary inquiries. The text is highly criticized by professionals and oppositions are mixed.