Side by side, Xavier Pavageau, president of the Toulouse judicial court, and Samuel Vuelta-Simon, public prosecutor, insisted, this Thursday, to alert again on the suffering of Toulouse justice.

After the solemn return to school on Friday, they called a press conference this time, starting by mentioning “a situation of stagnation”. “In Toulouse, we have established crime. Every week, we have at least two uncovered narcotics cases, dissects the prosecutor. In immediate comparison, we judge individuals for trafficking every day.”

Another scourge, intimately linked to narcotics, “weapons are more numerous in Toulouse. Edged weapons of course, but discoveries of firearms are more and more common. There are hunting rifles, handguns , weapons of war. The ports of weapons have doubled since 2019”.

“Degraded services”

The Toulouse jurisdiction is also dealing with the increase “in qualified and sexually qualified people. In the last three years, we have had an increase in crime in all sectors. There is more work for the police, the gendarmes, the judges, clerks and, faced with this increase, we have the same number of people we had three or four years ago”. The Toulouse prosecutor’s office has 28 magistrates. “It would take 35.”

In civil matters, the situation is no better. President Pavageau indeed points to “an understaffing and an activity that continues to increase”. Result: “Degraded services such as family affairs. I even took the decision to suspend the service of victims for six months, for lack of a judge. The situation is unbearable”.

So, Xavier Pavageau impatiently attends the “transparency” of February 17, hoping for the massive arrival of resources in Toulouse.