“We must always listen to the base”: the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti will receive this Friday the signatories of a forum of more than 3,000 magistrates denouncing their working conditions and shouting their growing discomfort, he said. this Thursday on LCI.
This column, published in the daily The world, has been signed by more than 3,280 magistrates, or more than a third of the profession. “This forum is important, because of the number of signatories. It is original in the sense that it is not something union if I may say so, it is the base and we must always listen to the base ”, underlined the Minister of Justice.
Eric Dupond-Moretti will receive “a certain number” of signatories this Friday, magistrates of the bench and the prosecution, judges of application of sentences and investigating judges so that it is “eclectic and representative”. He did not say whether he would also invite representatives of professional organizations.
“An almost existential difficulty”
“It emerges from this forum an almost existential difficulty”, estimated the minister, recalling that the questions which are raised there, in particular those of the means and “the consideration which one owes to the magistrates and which is disintegrating”, are discussed within the framework of the Estates General of Justice, launched on October 18.
These States General had been demanded at the beginning of June by the two highest magistrates of France after “systematic questioning of justice”, and the unease caused by a demonstration in May of police officers in front of the National Assembly who shouted at the laxity of the judges .
“At that moment, I am the only one to go up on the barricade or one of the only, [le seul] to defend justice and to defend it in a republican way ”, declared Eric Dupond-Moretti on LCI.