In a survey carried out for the JDD, 73% of French people believe that justice “works badly”. They are also 65% to believe that the judges are “not strict enough”. Figures that had never been so high for 60 years. In addition, the record in terms of the fight against insecurity is considered “negative” by 69% of respondents.
A large majority of French people (73%) believe that the judicial institution “works badly”, a figure which has never been so high for 60 years, according to an IFOP poll for the Sunday newspaper made public on Saturday July 23. Respondents are 65% to believe that the judges are “not severe enough”.
Seniors (73%), Catholics (72%) and sympathizers of the radical right (82%) are among the social categories that are most critical of what they perceive as a lack of severity on the part of justice, says the Journal du Dimanche. However, excessive indulgence on the part of judges towards delinquents is, according to Ifop, “perceived mainly in all socio-demographic, cultural and political categories of the population, with the notable exception of EELV sympathizers”with only 37% sharing this view.
“Negative” balance sheet for justice under Macron according to the French
In terms of the fight against insecurity, the balance sheet of the President of the Republic since his election is considered “negative” at 69% while his action in the area of justice is judged negatively at 73%. Two years after his arrival in government, 30% of respondents consider the action of the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti “positive”, while 44% of those questioned have a bad opinion of him.
A damning report from the Estates General of Justice
This survey comes as the Minister began a series of consultations on July 18 with citizens and players in the judicial world as a whole, ten days after the presentation to Emmanuel Macron of the report on the Estates General of Justice, judged “ on the verge of breaking “. The two main magistrates’ unions, in conflict with the minister, refused his invitation.
The survey was carried out on a sample of 1,017 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, questioned by self-administered online questionnaire on July 21 and 22.
By noting that the government, as part of its energy sobriety plan, had preferred to assign the police to control air-conditioned stores in order to ensure that they close their doors under penalty of fines, ome, like the columnist Guillaume Bigot, did not fail to denounce a “joke”:
Unable to protect them against scum, the State will instruct its police to turn off the air conditioning in stores and to impose fines on those who do not respect energy savings. Credible but almost.#LaMatinaleWE pic.twitter.com/3SP97dJomf
— Guillaume Bigot (@Guillaume_Bigot) July 23, 2022