opposed to the project, police officers, magistrates and lawyers gather throughout France

Hundreds of police officers, magistrates and lawyers gathered again, Thursday, March 16, throughout France to denounce the project to reform the judicial police desired by Gérald Darmanin. The rallies were scheduled for noon in front of the judicial courts, at the call of the National Association of the Judicial Police (ANPJ), created in August to organize the response against the reform which must come into force at the end of the year. .

In Lyon, where 150 investigators, magistrates, lawyers and members of the Anticor association were gathered, the president of the ANPJ, Yann Bauzin, argued that “the validation of this project was done without real social dialogue”. “With the complacency, if not to say the complicity, of certain unions”he asserted. “The main problem will be the lowering of the guard against organized crime and high-level financial crime”said Cédric Antoine, vice-president of the Lyon Court of Appeal and treasurer of the local branch of the Union of magistrates.

In Paris, there were also more than 150 investigators from the judicial police, magistrates and lawyers close to the judicial court. The reform does not apply to Paris and the inner suburbs, but the investigators of the central offices of the PJ based in Nanterre (Hauts-de-seine) made the trip to join the magistrates and lawyers, mostly opposed to the project.