Interview with Robert BADINTER, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals, says that the presidential election and that of a Left majority validated the abolition of the death penalty; even if a majority of the French vote against.
Eva Joly, MEP for Europe Ecology and former magistrate, visited the new prison in Corbas. Interviewed, she explains: "...we have not added to the design of the project the people who work in it, social workers for example and the result in my opinion is catastrophic, it is a universe that generates violence".
The lawyer Gilbert Collard is invited to talk about his book "Jobic the pretext". It presents the Jobic case as a pretext case that bears witness to the imperfections of police and judicial institutions. He explains: "This is an exemplary case, a pretext in quotation marks, to the extent that it shows to what extent institutions, police, justice, delirium sometimes cheerfully, sometimes sinister...".
Interviewed on the difficulty for lawyers to engage in politics, Michel Vauzelle, spokesman for the Elysée Palace, explains: "... today, a lawyer can hardly find the time necessary to make politics, so I am an exeption, there are a few more...".
Interviewed on the reform of the judicial map, Arnaud Montebourg, deputy PS of Saône and Loire, explains: "it is the commission of the haste, which passes over all the rural territories. Ms Dati sort of puts the karcher in the rural territories on the courts".
Interviewed about her law studies and her legal profession, Marine Le Pen says: "In the courts, you always get the impression that you’re fixing things, but the only way to really change things is politics, and that’s also why I left the bar...".
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira will introduce criminal reform legislation. Interviewed on the subject, Gilbert COLLARD, lawyer, deputy of Gard and general secretary of the Marine Blue Rally, said of Christiane Taubira: "It is Notre Dame de Lourdes of light sentences...".
Interviewed on the objectives of a meeting of prefects devoted to security, former judge Thierry Jean-Pierre, European MP Liberal Democracy, addresses the themes of delinquency and justice: "The problem of criminal responsibility of minors must be clearly reviewed...and then, more generally, the problem of justice must be solved".
Lawyer Robert Badinter becomes Minister of Justice. Some magistrates would have been concerned about a lawyer in that position. Interviewed, Robert Badinter explains: "The office of minister has nothing to do with the profession of lawyer. Yesterday, I stopped by the president’s bar and it’s over".
Update on the trial of Christian DIDIER who murdered René BOUSQUET, the former general secretary of the Vichy police. Psychiatric experts said "he was not in a state of dementia" at the time of the incident. In alternation, commentary on archive images and the interview of his young lawyer, Arnaud MONTEBOURG. This is Arnaud MONTEBOURG’s first appearance on television.
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