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In France, millions of court cases are being processed, sometimes for years. Slow treatment which can have serious consequences. The teams of the 13 Hours of France 2 followed three women, blocked by the slowness of justice.
A divorce process that never ends. Nathalie, divorced, had to wait five years before her case was dealt with at first instance. Now, it is three more years of waiting for the processing of the decision on appeal. “My life hangs on a judgment that does not come”, says the woman, a bank executive. “A lack of respect”, according to the woman. The courts are piling up delays.
In Saint-Étienne, in the Loire, this is an important issue that has dragged on for ten long years for Catherine Grizard and her friend Valérie Bouquet, who remained severely handicapped by an accident during a demonstration: in 2011, a grid of The poorly sealed ventilation slipped under them, causing them to fall three meters high into a pit. Valérie Bouquet will spend 2 months in a coma and Catherine Grizard will suffer 22 fractures. “I’m sick of all this, it’s my life that’s ended. I’m angry with French law”yells Valérie Bouquet, now in a wheelchair. The state has been convicted 218 times for its slowness in processing, and complaints are only increasing.