Police custody in circumstances of aggravated sexual violence, “clearance” operations in jail, execution of sentences… the primary bulletins from Gérald Darmanin | EUROtoday

The new Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, introduced on Thursday December 26 that he wished to extend the length of police custody to seventy-two hours. “in cases of aggravated sexual violence and feminicide”.

Questioned on TF1 concerning the Pelicot affair and the Mazan rape trial, the Minister of Justice responded that he meant to suggest that the custody of suspects of aggravated sexual violence or feminicide be prolonged from forty-eight hours to seventy-two hours.

“It allows us to protect the woman who has been threatened, violated, attacked. This allows technical and scientific police findings to be made and allows the person to be questioned at greater length”detailed Mr. Darmanin.

“Clean space” in prisons

The former Minister of the Interior (July 2020-September 2024), appointed Monday at Place Vendôme by François Bayrou, additionally declared himself in favor of a “operation “clean space” in prisons”so as to ” to clean “ penitentiary institutions.

“Today there are prisoners who have cell phones and who continue their trafficking, manage their deal points, order assassinations from prison, and this is obviously unacceptable”declared Gérald Darmanin, including that it was essential to be “firmer, more intense” and take away cell telephones in jail.

Last October, a narchomicide case in Marseille highlighted this downside: an inmate from Luynes jail, close to Aix-en-Provence, having recruited two youngsters by way of social networks to hold out contracts throughout the framework of drug trafficking. In 2023 alone, 53,000 units and equipment have been seized, in response to the jail administration.

Like his predecessors, Eric Dupond-Moretti and Didier Migaud, the brand new Minister of Justice wished the generalization of phone jammers in all jail institutions. Since 2018, 100 million euros have been invested in whole jamming units. They are at present current in 18 penitentiary institutions out of a complete of 186.

Mr. Darmanin additionally declared that it was obligatory, within the occasion of a misdemeanor or crime, “ that the sentence be pronounced and immediately executed”, considering that magistrates like clerks “are the first to note that, under the weight of the complexity of the procedure, under the weight of the lack of resources too, they make decisions one year, two years, three years after the facts, and their sentence is carried out , sometimes a year, two years, three years after having [été] pronounced”.

For larger effectivity, the Keeper of the Seals notably proposed to equip itself with “smaller remand centers, on a human scale “.