TRIBUNE – Following the death of a police officer in Mougins, knocked down by a repeat offender, and the release of a man who knocked down a little girl in Vallauris, the laxity of the justice system is rightly being singled out, as everything is done to ensure that offenders escape incarceration, the lawyer analyses.
Hervé Lehman is the author of Be biased! The judicial left’s itinerary (Editions du Cerf, 2022).
After the tragic deaths of a police officer and a little girl caused by reckless drivers, public opinion does not understand the judges’ decisions. In the first case, the perpetrator had been prosecuted ten times without ever going to prison; in the second, the perpetrator was released before the child was even buried. The judges must, once again, face the accusation of laxity. Choked by indignation, some politicians are losing their common sense. Karl Olive, Renaissance MP, said: « I am for a crime offense ( ?). I am in favor of the presumption of guilt. » He would do better to question his own responsibility as a legislator.
Christiane Taubira had the law of 15 August 2014 passed, which prohibits judges, except in exceptional circumstances, from sending offenders to prison. Article L. 132-19…
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