Why the judiciary should look at its conscience on its function within the Vichy regime | EUROtoday

CAdvisor to the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence the place he sits within the juvenile chamber, affiliate professor on the Faculty of Law of Toulon, Laurent Sebag immersed himself within the judicial archives of the darkish hours of the Occupation . He produced an uncompromising e book from it, The Judges going through Vichy (Enrick Éditions), which questions “the banality of judicial evil”, when the odd courts utilized “coldly” the anti-Semitic legal guidelines of the Pétain regime.

The Point : On July 10, 1940, the National Assembly voted full powers to Marshal Pétain. Three months later, a primary decree-law “on the status of Jews” was promulgated, notably prohibiting them from accessing sure professions. Other texts accomplished this anti-Semitic arsenal. Vichy thus enacted a proper…