Salhia Brakhlia goes to meet a woman who exercises an essential profession in society. Élise Yamani is an investigating judge. His journey allows us to go behind the scenes of justice.
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Élise Yamani is an investigating judge for economic and financial affairs in Lyon. “This is serious economic and financial crime, generally offenses related to organized gang money laundering, organized brande fraud”she translated at the microphone of franceinfo.
It was at the Lyon court that Salhia Brakhlia met her. She talks about her daily life: how does she carry out her investigation? “We research, we are curious, we have hypotheses, counter-hypotheses with the investigators and we walkshe explains. We doubt and we move forward little by little”. According to the investigating judge, his work “is actually going to be not to be in an ideological corridor or in a corridor of thought. And that’s what I like about this job.”
“People open up their privacy, their suffering, to you, and sometimes you yourself, as an investigating judge, seek privacy, it’s intrusive.”
Élise Yamani, investigating judgeat franceinfo
“With us the customer is not king, we have no customersshe continues. We intervene in a public service, of course, but very often it is the collective interest that is behind it. We don’t only do good, it’s true. It’s our job.”
“Essentials”, a franceinfo podcast by Salhia Brakhlia, to be found on the franceinfo website, the Radio France application and several other platforms such as Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify, or Deezer.