A hundred magistrates, clerks and lawyers mobilized in Toulouse against “a discount justice”
A hundred magistrates accompanied by clerks and lawyers worked this Tuesday at 1 p.m. on the steps of the Toulouse courthouse on the Jules Guesde alleys. A national against a justice that they consider as a movement at a discount. The demonstrators notably chanted “angry justice”.
Magistrates denounce their working conditions and requires above all human resources. They say they deliver justice quickly and badly, or else they deliver it well but in unacceptable delays. “Measures have been taken but they do not solve the problems immediately”deplores Christine Khaznadar, regional delegate of the USM (Union of magistrates) for Occitania.
The 2nd mobilization of the judicial world in one year
This is the second mobilization in less than a year. They were about double on December 15, 2021. A year ago, a platform retained by 3,000 magistrates (more commonly called the platform of 3,000) had created an electric shock and alerted to the working conditions of the institution, after the suicide of a young colleague. The text was initialed today by nearly 8,000 professionals.
A judge who died in the middle of a hearing in Nanterre
More recently, in mid-October, the death of a 44-year-old magistrate, Marie Truchet, in the middle of a hearing immediate comparison to Nanterre caused a new shock wave. “We are going straight into the wall. We have had suicides, more than a dozen since 2012. Suicides that we can heal that they are work-related”adds Marie Leclerc, regional delegate of the magistrates’ union and very worried about the future. “And then, there are deaths at work now. We have a colleague who has just died in the middle of a hearing at 44 years old.”
The Toulouse court was on strike on Tuesdayan unprecedented movement for the TPE according to its magistrates and clerks, and which, according to them, testifies to their great suffering at work.
A plan soon presented by the Minister
The Minister of Justice confirmed thata program plan will be presented soon to guarantee the promises of hiring 1,500 magistrates for the next five years, but also 1,500 clerks and others, or “10,000 staff in total”. The executive had also announced a salary increase of 1,000 euros per month on average for judicial judges. But not until next year.