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The magistrates of the judicial courts of Meaux, Melun and Fontainebleau are sounding the alarm. The number of criminal cases continues to increase in Seine-et-Marne. Concretely, the Assize Court and the Departmental Criminal Court (CCD) rendered 99 decisions in 2023 compared to 73 the previous year (+ 35.6%), before the CCD – which judges defendants risking sentences without a popular jury. of imprisonment of up to twenty years – be put in place.
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Worse: as of December 31, 2023, there were even 127 closed criminal proceedings awaiting judgment (+ 23.3%). “For us, the stock is getting worse: in 2023 we had 57 new criminal cases compared to 43 in 2022,” specifies the Melun prosecutor, Jean-Michel Bourlès.