Eric Dupond-Moretti wishes to create a specialized parquet floor and a “repentant” status

The details must be presented in October, specifies the Minister of Justice, in “la Tribune Dimanche”.

The government will create a national prosecutor’s office dedicated to the fight against organized crime, announced in the Tribune Sunday the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, Sunday April 28. This new parquet, the “Pnaco”, “will strengthen our judicial arsenal to better fight against high-end delinquency”explained the Minister of Justice.

The former national anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard, appointed a few days ago as special advisor to the minister, will be responsible for consultation with a view to defining the contours of this reform, the details of which will be presented in October, the minister said. .

“Official and definitive change of civil status” for “repentants”

Eric Dupond-Moretti also announced the creation of a “true status of the repentant”, inspired by the model in force in Italy to fight against the mafia. In France, “Legislation in this area already exists but it is far too restrictive and therefore not very effective”he believes.

In the future, a judge may grant special status to a repentant who has “collaborated with justice” And “made sincere, complete and decisive statements to dismantle criminal networks” : the penalty incurred by the person concerned will be reduced and he will be offered, for his protection, “an official and definitive change of civil status”, a device “totally new”says the minister.

Creation of a crime of “organized criminal association”

The Minister of Justice also proposes that special assize courts, composed solely of professional magistrates, be entrusted not only with organized drug trafficking, as is already the case today, but also with future settling of scores between traffickers. This will avoid pressure and threats on the citizen jurors who must judge these assassinations, he notes.

The minister intends to create in the penal code a crime of “organized criminal association”, punishable by 20 years of imprisonment. Today, those who matter “cocaine from Colombia” risk half as much, for “conspiracy”he argues.