A toddler’s crime that shakes up the state. THE Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin brings collectively the attorneys normal this Monday on the Chancellery to ask them for a evaluation of the complaints regarding baby victims within the wake of theLyhanna affairwhereas feminist and baby safety collectives known as for rallies in entrance of the courts. The Minister of Justice summoned the attorneys normal, the representatives of the general public prosecutor’s workplace throughout the 36 courts of enchantment in France, at 8:30 a.m. for a “working assembly”.
He’ll inform them that they’ve till July 14 “to take up all of the complaints affecting youngsters”, or round 70,000, because the minister introduced on Sunday on LCI. “We’re going to take motion in opposition to all complaints” and “there’s not a senior Justice of the Peace who’s going to go on trip” till this census has been performed, warned Gérald Darmanin, whereas a white march introduced collectively 6,000 individuals in tribute to Lyhanna in Fleurance, within the Gers.
Apologies to Lyhanna’s household
Because the discovery of the physique of the 11-year-old woman and the revelations about complaints for rape of minors – sure procedures having subsequently been closed – to which the suspect was the topic, the Minister of Justice occupies the media area. He first stated he was “terrified” throughout a visit to Béziers on Thursday, then the following day identified “the overwhelming and unacceptable dysfunctions of state companies”.
Friday night on TF1, he introduced his “apologies” to Lyhanna’s household on behalf of the judicial establishment, which “failed in following up on the complaints” filed in opposition to the suspect, and threatened “sanctions” from magistrates if “failures, skilled misconduct” have been “confirmed”. An inspection (justice, gendarmerie and nationwide schooling) should ship its conclusions inside 15 days. The criticism which focuses the criticism was filed on August 22, 2025 in Plaisance-du-Contact (Haute-Garonne) by the mom of an 11-year-old woman, for rapes dedicated between September 2024 and Might 2025 on the suspect’s residence.
“Rape of a kid is an absolute emergency”
After finishing up a number of investigative acts, together with forensic examinations corroborating the little woman’s statements, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s workplace relinquished accountability in favor of that of Auch, which had territorial jurisdiction. Transmitted by submit on the finish of 2025, the file was solely despatched by the Auch public prosecutor’s workplace to the Lectoure gendarmerie on January 9, 2026. And regardless of “pretty damning investigative components”, the suspect had nonetheless not been heard on the time of the disappearance of Lyhannalamented Inside Minister Laurent Nuñez on Sunday night on France 2. His colleague Gérald Darmanin regretted a “lack of prioritization” within the dealing with of this criticism, whereas “rape of a kid is an absolute emergency”.
In a press launch on Friday, the Nationwide Convention of Attorneys Normal and that of Public Prosecutors reacted to the statements of the Minister of Justice, contemplating that no accountability might be established nor any sanction pronounced earlier than the conclusions of the inspection. The Union of Magistrates (majority) for its half pointed to an inflation of directions – “42 circulars and 72 dispatches since 2025” in accordance with its deputy normal secretary Aurélien Martini – and the try to seek out “scapegoats and rapidly”.
Three prosecutors per 100,000 inhabitants, in comparison with 12.2 on common in Europe
The query of means, evacuated by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, must also be on the desk of the “working assembly” on Monday at Place Vendôme. If the justice finances has elevated in recent times, in accordance with the president of the CNPR, Frédéric Chevallier, it doesn’t make up for a structural delay. France has three prosecutors per 100,000 inhabitants, in comparison with 12.2 on common in Europe. The Justice of the Peace additionally notes that justice represents solely 5 euros out of 1,000 of the state finances, and that greater than half of the ministry’s finances goes to the prisons.
A number of feminist and baby safety teams have for his or her half known as for rallies on Monday at 7 p.m. in entrance of the Ministry of Justice and in entrance of round 100 courts. Denouncing a “systemic failure of establishments”, the Girls’s Basis notably known as for “a complete regulation in opposition to sexual violence in opposition to ladies and youngsters”.
