H2O RADIO – ANNECY | “Domestic violence is obviously a priority of my penal policy: nothing must be missed. »Line Bonnet, Public prosecutor of Annecy
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The 12/21/2021 – 64 views
By Auriana Castro & Mathieu Hutin
Line Bonnet, Annecy prosecutor was “The guest H2O” this Sunday, December 19, 2021. An interview of almost an hour to review her career and her first four months at the Annecy floor. In the second part of the interview, Pierre Filliard, deputy prosecutor of Annecy and union representative of the Syndicat de la magistrature, we joined to discuss the mobilization of magistrates this Wednesday, December 15.
In the first part of the interview, this is the opportunity for Line Bonnet to present her career: “I entered the bench oddly enough, without having someone close to me in the bench, but just out of wanting to do this job. ”
The judiciary has changed functions several times: “We get the chance to do a job where we can build bridges. I changed jobs regularly, passing through different jurisdictions. “ His first post is in the Parisian crown: deputy prosecutor. Line Bonnet explains: “It’s a fairly classic first post for a magistrate. It was a difficult but very formative court. ”
The magistrate subsequently left the prosecution to be a judge of the application of sentences in Bobigny. She then joined the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons. Line Bonnet explains: “To summarize, it is the body which created the laws and which helps to put them in place. It is a direction which is attached to the minister (of justice editor’s note) and which met in application of the decisions of the Keeper of the Seals. We are also there to support colleagues. The objective is also to escalate the problems and difficulties of colleagues to the Minister. “
Line Bonnet then became head of the execution of sentences section at the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office. She is then in charge of monitoring convicts for acts of terrorism from 2014 to 2018: “You can imagine that there were quite a few topics on terrorism at that time. ”
Asked about the historical side of these events, the prosecutor confides: “I think that in 20 years the children will hear about the confinement. But when you live it, it’s hard to tell yourself it’s a historic moment. It is when we reflect on the events that we have lived collectively that we realize that it is a strong moment, but we at the time, we went there because we arrived. “ Line Bonnet joined after the General Inspectorate of Justice. A body whose objective is to deal with individual problems but also collective jurisdictions and to assess public policies.
December 2021, it has been four months since Line Bonet was appointed Annecy prosecutor.
Asked about the reasons for her coming to the department, she confides: “I had always wanted to be a prosecutor. I realized that I was made for the parquet floor. “ And why Annecy? “It is a court of perfect size to begin with, it is a court that functions well, in a region where the investigative services are carried out well. “
It is also an opportunity for the prosecutor to present her major leitmotifs. Like its predecessor, drug trafficking and burglary are part of it: “It’s hard work. “ Another big issue: “Today domestic violence is obviously a priority of my penal policy. You have to be extremely active. I would not speak only of domestic violence but intra-family violence, on ascendants: we must not let anything go. “ The prosecutor explains that each spousal homicide, on the national territory, was the subject “Feedback” to find the loopholes and the points to improve.
Line Bonnet confides: “There have been malfunctions. The difficulties encountered by justice are also encountered by the police. On a criminal procedure that has become more complex, year after year, sometimes duly justified, but a selection that was done before in 30 minutes must now be done in 2 hours and without the necessary additional human resources. “
The question of the judicialization of our society then arises for the magistrate: ” It’s a reality. This is a great request from our citizens. For each social phenomenon, we give a crime. For example, we have the offense of sexist contempt or the offense of school harassment which was recently voted on. I do not dispute the importance of these themes, it is that before these problems were solved outside the judicial field. “
In the second part of the interview, Pierre Filliard, deputy prosecutor of Annecy and union representative of the Syndicat de la magistrature, we joined to explain the demands of the magistrates in the street this Wednesday, December 15, 2021.
A national movement that follows the tribune of 3000 magistrates published in Le Monde at the end of November. The various professional bodies of justice (magistrates, clerks, lawyers) had then denounced their working conditions and their growing discomfort.
For the prosecutor, if the problems are not new, the conditions for the exercise of justice are only getting worse: “I think that the situation continues to deteriorate and that it’s been a very long time since we tried, each one on our side, to draw the attention of the public authorities to the deterioration of the situation of justice . Not for us! But for litigants and society [..] “
Pierre Filliard underlines the inability of magistrates to properly exercise their function: ” […] people are not only exasperated but above all desperate to no longer be able to simply do their job, that is to say to provide society with the services it expects. […] “ He explains : “We cannot judge people in dignified conditions with the burden of the hearings that we have. Not too long ago, I left an audience I’ve been sitting in since 8:30 a.m., with 30 minutes of sitting down for a sandwich and a coffee. When the president said “the hearing is adjourned”, it was 11:38 pm. What can be done as justice in such conditions? “
The Annecy prosecutor did not sign the platform, she explains: “It’s a platform that was signed by the grassroots, and I find it a bit demagogic to sign a platform when management problems are raised. I did not want to dispossess this platform of colleagues. I did not sign it but I share my convictions. “ After Pierre Filliard, the magistrate presents another example of a gap between the public’s imagination of their function and reality: “Me, like my colleagues, we do not have a secretariat. You should know that for each user who writes to us, we must spend 40 minutes of our time answering and sending mail. It’s terrible because we say to ourselves that we have to take this time, but the situation is that we cannot take half an hour of our time that we do not have. “
Faced with these working conditions, the two magistrates are met on the future of the profession: “We are doing a wonderful job. But we are in the process of changes in society which mean that people no longer want to have the life that we had. At the prosecution, these are weeks of permanence 7 days a week, without knowing what time to come home in the evening, to answer the phone at all hours. Young colleagues, rightly or wrongly, each thought what he wanted, but I hear them, find that working 12 hours a day is not viable. “
For the Annecy prosecutor, it is this gap between their reality and their public image that is difficult to bear: “What pains us is the way citizens look at us. People say “they don’t care” it’s so far from our reality. “
Asked about the declaration of the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, on France Inter, the same morning: “I have fixed justice. “, Pierre Filliard replies: “He fixed it like chatterton on a punctured pipe, it loosens a little longer. It is not a repair, it is DIY. We don’t want a solution like that in a hurry. “Fast sugars” said the minister. He has contracted in the courts of contractual, not trained, of which one does not know the exact statute nor the tasks which one can entrust to them or how long will one have them? […] It is a show. “
The union representative hopes that their demands will be heard, that the government will respond to this mobilization with human and financial resources. He closes: “We are not ready to let go of the pressure. “.