Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti wants to rethink the status of “repentant”

With this measure, the Minister of Justice wishes to fight more effectively against organized crime, drug trafficking and serial score-settling. With the creation of a new repentant status, an accomplice who provides information enabling the dismantling of criminal networks would see his sentence revised and would be protected by the police. “Witnesses either don’t come to justice because they are accomplices, or they are scared”declared Éric Dupond-Moretti, Sunday April 28 on BFMTV.

A national prosecutor’s office to fight organized crime

The status of repentant or collaborator of justice was created 10 years ago in France. But it still remains limited and little used. Only 42 people and their loved ones are part of the program. To benefit from it, you must have attempted to commit an offense without having directly participated in it. The text could be extended to perpetrators of criminal acts, as in Italy, where the words of repentants are essential to fight against the mafia. The government also wants to create a national prosecutor’s office to fight against organized crime, based on the model of the fight against terrorism.