At the judicial city of Dijon, we scrutinize the slightest information on a future reconfinement. If it had to be decided by the government, this would risk again lengthening the judicial deadlines, already very complicated to keep, as confirmed by the prosecutor of the Republic of Dijon Eric Mathais.
“With the year 2020 we had a lot of cases returned, this is in addition to all the others we have to judge.” This concerns first “family matters: it takes several months, sometimes a year to obtain a date, it is not reasonable. The correctional judgments also, we had to send back a lot during the lawyers’ strike and during the first confinement, and then a criminal activity which at the end of 2020 was very intense. ”
Local justice
To unclog the courts precisely, the justice reform launched by the government promises to establish local justice. And Eric Mathais promises to go beyond the slogan “The idea is that we deal better with small everyday crimes, those with which you are confronted, you in Dijon and elsewhere in Côte-d’Or, incivility, small degradations. So far, one could let think that the justice did not devote sufficient means and time to these cases of little gravity. “
