The Bobigny court, “laboratory of innovation”, celebrates its 50th anniversary

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MAINTENANCE. The court is located in Seine-Saint-Denis, one of the most criminogenic French departments. The heads of jurisdiction evoke its extraordinary challenges.

Interview by Valentine Arama

” VSis ugly, it leaks everywhere, everything is dilapidated. It is in these unflattering terms that Béatrice Brugère, general secretary of the Magistrates-FO Unit, recently mentioned to the Point of the Bobigny courthouse in Seine-Saint-Denis, a building with modernist architecture which conceals within it major defects. A structure that has indeed become the reflection, even the synonym, of a breathless justice. In Bobigny, where cases can take years to be judged, the magistrates, often very young, are overloaded when the hearings – and in particular the immediate appearances – can end late at night, sometimes until 3 am . While this week marked the 50th anniversary of the court, the two heads of jurisdiction draw up for Point a certain…

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