The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti has asked all prosecutors in France to provide a criminal response “copy” in case “irreversible damage” to biodiversity, in a circular consulted this Wednesday, September 21 by AFP which also mentions the “urban rodeos“, prison overcrowding and delays in trial.
“You will be particularly attentive to ensuring that an educational, restorative and exemplary response is provided to offenses likely to lead to irreversible damage to biodiversity.“, writes the Keeper of the Seals in this”general criminal policy circularInitialed on Tuesday and the content of which he revealed in Le Parisien.
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The Minister assures us thateconomic rationality must be reversed” by giving back “prohibitive“the cost of a behavior”negligent, even knowingly prejudicial to the preservation of our resources and our natural heritage“. In this twelve-page text, the Minister sweeps away a whole series of priorities that he assigns to the public prosecutor’s offices, which are responsible for opening investigations, initiating proceedings and requiring sentences during trials.
In particular, he calls on them to wear a “more sustained attention” to serious harm to persons and to strengthen the fight against “organized crime” and the “urban rodeos“, recently targeted by the Ministry of the Interior.
Quick penalties
“Their repression (…) imposes rapid sanctions including, when these are possible, the seizure and confiscation of vehicles which must be able to be alienated or assigned to charitable associations, and failing that, destroyed“, details the minister.
On the general functioning of justice, the Keeper of the Seals calls for reducing the duration of the procedures, while some of them have been canceled for “unreasonable delay“. “When proceedings against the perpetrators of serious acts or repeated claimants are necessary, these must take place within the time limits for judgment which must always be as short as possible, without reasonably exceeding eight months.“, he specifies.
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Faced with prison overcrowding which remainscritical“, by his own admission, the Minister of Justice also asks “expressly“to the prosecutors of”ensure the strict necessity of pre-trial detention» by favoring alternative measures to incarceration, such as house arrest with electronic monitoring. According to figures published by the ministry at the beginning of the month, the number of detainees in France reached 71,819 for 60,719 operational places on August 1.
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