DECRYPTION – Investigators fear that the strengthening of the power of lawyers will give them the power to block hearings, to the detriment of the rights of victims.
The Synergie-Officers police union is stepping up to the plate against the reform of police custody, which has just been published in the Official Journal. In his latest monthly bulletin, he regrets that this law of April 22, 2024, which grants “additional rights for those involved”, complicates the task of investigators a little more. “Nothing surprising in the end, since it is a transposition into national law of European provisions, the stated aim of which is to increase the rights of the defense”says a Parisian police officer.
Jean-Paul Mégret, number two of the Independent Union of Police Commissioners (SICP), is also concerned about the possible consequences of this text which, according to him, would not have been enough “anticipated”. It will come into force, it is true, in barely two weeks, on the eve of the Olympic Games and the practitioners of the investigation, among the magistrates or in the ranks of the police, are awaiting details, a circular from the guard Seals at least, for the…
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