In Périgueux, between 80 and 100 people gathered at noon in front of the court. In Bergerac, a rally took place at the same time. They are magistrates, clerks, lawyers and court officials to denounce the lack of means. This day of national mobilization of the world of justice was launched at the call of 17 unions.
It all started with a column published on November 25 in the newspaper Le Monde by around half of the magistrates in France to denounce Professional exhaustion all categories of personnel working in a courthouse. The courts still process as many cases but there are certain additional tasks to be managed without additional staff and the material does not follow.
13 vacant clerk positions at the Périgueux court
In Périgueux and Bergerac, two motions were passed unanimously to request additional staff to lighten the workload. In Périgueux, it will be missing in January 29% of transplant time according to Eva Dunant, vice-president of the judicial tribunal. Out of 53 clerk posts, 13 are lacking because of sick people and non-replaced departures which causes additional delays for the rendering of judgments, because without a clerk no judgment is possible, they are “the guarantors of the procedure. “.