Disappearance
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Former president of the Paris Court of Appeal, the judge had just completed her term on the Constitutional Council. She died Thursday at age 71.
Nicole Maestracci sometimes had a slightly sad smile, but she never gave up, leading her battles step by step, following her convictions to the letter. Impressive righteousness. She died Thursday, April 7 of cancer, at the age of 71, just weeks after completing her nine-year term on the Constitutional Council.
“It suits him so well, tells us Patrick Chanson who worked with her for a long time. Nicole didn’t give up. His intellectual righteousness and his rigor were impressive.” Nicole Maestracci was first a magistrate, passionate about justice and rights. Joining the National School for the Judiciary in 1977, she was appointed juvenile judge in Melun (Seine-et-Marne) then judge in Paris in 1982. Subsequently, she joined the central administration of the Ministry of Justice until in 1992, before returning to the “field”. It was during these years that she carried out a mission on health in prison, making it totally dependent on the Ministry of Health and no longer on the Ministry of Justice: an important step in bringing health into the closed world of prisons.
“Break the taboo” on drugs
A few years later, Nicole Maestracci will play a decisive role, when she will be appointed from 1998 to 2002 at the head of the Interministerial Mission for the Fight against Drugs and Drug Addiction (MILDT). Lionel Jospin is then Prime Minister and Nicole Maestracci will succeed in a tour de force: to bring out the fight against addi…