The day after the French disturbances: trials, punishments and hunger for revenge
- The French Government wants to experiment with trial and punishment for those arrested in the incidents, some 3,600. Lawyers accelerate the judicial process and denounce the “lack of the right to defence”. Over 380 people have already received the sentence.
The French Government has made an effort to speed up the judicial process and seeks to prosecute persons detained in the incidents. Media Jacobin has published that, since Éric Dupond-Moret, the Minister of Justice has asked magistrates to respond “quickly, forcefully and systematically” to incidents.
In an interview held on 3 July at Radio France, he explained that he also wanted to draw the attention of his parents: “On the one hand, to draw attention to their children and, on the other, to remind them that what their children do can have terrible consequences.”
These statements and the attitudes shown by several judges have exposed the hunger for revenge of the French Government. For example, Éric Mathais, General Prosecutor of the Bobigny district (Paris), has uploaded the rulings to the Linkedin platform as a trophy.
Over 380 people have already been tried, 19 on Tuesday in the Bobigny district. Three of them have been acquitted and the other fifteen have been punished: community services, electronic bracelets, fines and prison sentences. Several lawyers denounce the “inability to prepare the defense”, as they have often received the file from their client hours before the start of the trial
Character of demonstrators
Data from the Ministry of Justice indicate that the total number of detainees has been around 3,600. 60% had no criminal record. They are 1,100 minors and the average age is seventeen years, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
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