Three thousand magistrates and a hundred clerks signed a column in the newspaper “Le Monde” Tuesday to warn of the deterioration of their working conditions and the injection to “go ever faster”.
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“There is total discouragement. We are at the end of our strength”, declared to France Bleu Nord Manon Lefebvre, deputy of the public prosecutor on the jurisdiction of the court of appeal of Douai (North). She is one of the editors of the column published Tuesday, November 23 in the newspaper The world. Signed by 3,000 magistrates out of 8,500 and a hundred clerks, the text denounces the lack of resources and the suffering at work.
This op-ed was written after the suicide of a 29-year-old magistrate, a judge within the jurisdiction of the Douai Court of Appeal. This suffering at work has become “insurmountable in the courts”, alert the magistrate. “The number of magistrates and civil servants is absolutely not sufficient to exercise our professions in dignified conditions.” It is according to her “absolutely impossible” to deliver quality justice with the means currently allocated to justice.
This forum, extremely rare for magistrates subject to a duty of secrecy, has been signed by nearly a third of the profession. “It’s a dramatic surprise, because there is a real problem”, deplores Manon Lefebvre. “There is a fed up. We are out of breath, we can no longer do it. Work stoppages are increasing”, she warns.