These ads have received a mixed home of the unions

Atmosphere heavy in the Chancellery. The keeper of the seals, Michel Mercier, yesterday received the unions of the judiciary and correctional services, after submit the reports of the General Inspectorate of judicial services and the Inspection of the prison service on the case of Laetitia Perrais. The judges were outraged the morning see conclusions of these reports, which are of a "succession of errors" in "Le Figaro" one party, prison services responsible for monitoring of Tony Meilhon, main suspect in the death of Laetitia Perrais. As the report of the General Inspectorate of the national police (IGPN) presented yesterday to the Ministry of the Interior, it is "dysfunctional" or "serious fault" of the police.

At the end of the meeting, Michel Mercier, is taking strict reading of a statement and refusing to answer any question, spoke, in the light of the findings of internal investigations, "obvious deficiencies at the level of the Organization of services and the flow of information between the different actors". Particular, he noted "a lack of connection between the insertion of the closed environment and open workplace advisors", and "criteria of allocation of records ignoring the principle of individualization of follow-ups, not sufficiently taking into account the profile of the persons sentenced". While the unions point to lack of resources, the keeper of the seals stressed in the conclusions on "inappropriate choices on the allocation of resources.

Anxious to spare the magistrates without renouncing the word of the head of State, Michel Mercier has also assured that it would take its responsibilities soon on "possible sanctions". Who described the trade unions, designed the prison administration, but not the judges. At the request of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister - he said-, the keeper of the seals will again bring together trade unions in working groups to consider the Organization of the prison service of integration and probation, means of enforcement services sentences and to the follow-up of convicted persons. A joint inspection justice-finance will be also launched on these issues. The Department is providing EUR 5 million in 2011 for additional vacations for the services of the execution of the sentences and prison insertion and probation services. Four hundred individual contractors should be recruited this year in anticipation of 400 clerks in 2012 arrived and additional funds should be devoted to the judges of proximity.

These ads have received a "mixed" home of the unions. If Christophe Regnard, President of the (majority) USM, is satisfied that "The superior judicial Council is not seized at disciplinary against Nantes magistrates", he has displayed its solidarity with the prison service, speaking "scapegoat" and adding that "is alleged to people not being able to manage the shortage". The magistrate also found "ridiculous" the pane on the means, "not at the height of the issues". It also requested that Nicolas Sarkozy "apologized to the judges." The prison unions have denounced them, the "low element in terms of characterized fault." Nevertheless, judges meeting in Inter-Union unions decided yesterday evening to call to resume hearings, "concerns of the litigant.