A profound disharmony between what we see and what we hear. This is what we could feel, on the morning of Friday January 10, under the gilding of the Grand’chamber of the Court of Cassation, on the occasion of its traditional solemn hearing. This protocol ritual at the start of the year is an opportunity for the two highest magistrates in France, Christophe Soulard, the first president, and Rémy Heitz, the attorney general, to deliver some messages with strong political content, in front of the representatives of the most major judicial institutions (Council of State, Constitutional Council, etc.), but especially in front of the Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and his Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, both seated in the front row. Their speech, each lasting half an hour, created an astonishing effect of contrast with the decorum and magnificent protocol of the Court of Cassation. Because it is indeed a sick justice which “goes into the wall”to use the expression of Rémy Heitz, which the two magistrates took care to describe.
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-“Concretely, these are magistrates and clerks who work beyond reason, criminal hearings that can no longer be organized due to a lack of advisors or courtrooms, difficult and sometimes dangerous working conditions for prison staff and living conditions that could be undignified for prisoners”introduced Christophe Soulard, before evoking justice on the verge of generalized burn-out.
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