The left supported the anger of magistrates

It was once too often. After the assault Tuesday night of two CRS to Corbeil (Essonne) and the publication of a letter from the prefect of Seine-Saint-Denis is alarming to the resurgence of crime in his Department, Nicolas Sarkozy has once again stigmatized the "resignation" of judges to the offenders. The point, yesterday, provoke a reaction of the first President of the Court of cassation, Guy Canivet, and the first President of the Court of appeal of Paris, Renaud Chazal of Mauriac, yet reluctant to engage in a polemic political. Guy Canivet asked to be received by the President of the Republic "to explain the severity with repeated to the distribution of powers under the Constitution and the unease felt by judges". Request immediately granted: Jacques Chirac receives it this morning.

Meeting in emergency

All day yesterday, the Elysee and Matignon did block to lend a hand to magistrates. Yesterday evening, Jacques Chirac received Nicolas Sarkozy. In the morning, Dominique de Villepin had defended "the commitment of the magistrates" in the fight against crime, out of a meeting convened in emergency with the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and social cohesion. A way for him to point the faults of Nicolas Sarkozy and not to let his rival in the majority act in free electron. In a certain way, also, the meeting provided address of pendulums in the Government. Because, until now, the Chancery had shown little responsive to repeated abuse of the Minister of the Interior. Yesterday, Pascal Clément said that the functioning of justice should be "with measure and impartiality". Criticism of course, but very quiet, for a keeper of the seals making gentle eyes to Nicolas Sarkozy in view of the presidential election and which, ironically, defended in the afternoon at the Senate Crime Bill concocted by the Minister of the Interior.

But the judges, on the ground, may more. "This new encroachment on the independence of the judiciary and the controversy that follows, placing the public institutions, weaken as much credit of justice that the authority of the State", says Guy Canivet. On the same tone, Renaud Chazal de Mauriac denounces "justice through formulas shocks and reducing stigma", concluding that it is "manifestly unfair" and "cannot be accepted. Last week, the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) gave notice denouncing violations of the separation of powers by Nicolas Sarkozy, who had already criticized in June the Bobigny tribunal to Jacques Chirac. The left supported the anger of magistrates. François Hollande asked the Minister of the Interior to "withdraw" his remarks and Jacques Chirac to "recall order" his Minister. While the sarkozystes rode the niche to defend their champion.

Firmly maintained comments

This morning, the Minister of the Interior must speak on RTL. Yesterday, he firmly maintained his words: "the French know well what I am saying, it's the truth...". "Do not call into question the independence of the judiciary to point the finger when there are failures", he said during a visit to the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Nevertheless, he quashed the movement he had planned today in the Hautes-Alpes. After his trip to controversial in the United States, the re-entry of Nicolas Sarkozy is decidedly difficult.