2024-02-25 15:47:09
Before the Senate commission of inquiry “on the impact of drug trafficking in France”, Marc Sommerer, president of the National Commission for Protection and Reintegration (CNPR), known as “repentants”, put the forms on Monday February 12 , to try to convince parliamentarians that there was an urgent need to reform the system for which he is responsible. He provided senators, who were not always attentive, with many details on the serious shortcomings of the pentiti program. With the hope that they will finally adapt the law to the reality of the criminal influence on French society.
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Before this commission of inquiry, chaired by Jérôme Durain, senator (socialist, environmentalist and republican group) from Saône-et-Loire, he recalled that if the CNPR was born from the Perben II law, passed in 2004, it had to wait until 2014 before coming into force, due to lack of an implementing decree. The CNPR has eight members, four magistrates, including the president, a police officer, a gendarme, a customs officer and an internal intelligence agent. It has an annual budget of 780,000 euros entirely financed by the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets.
Chaired by a magistrate, the CNPR is, in fact, under the supervision of the Ministry of the Interior. Because its secretariat is provided by police officers from the interministerial technical assistance service (SIAT). In addition, explained Mr. Sommerer, it is the only SIAT that “determines the number of people to be protected”Who “conducts the personality investigation and psychological evaluation of the candidate, his credibility, and his motivations”. The police also measure “the judicial interest of the case and the threat (…)then propose protection and reintegration measures”.
42 people protected
It is only afterwards that the CNPR decides on the eligibility of the candidate. As of January 1, 42 people, including repentants and their relatives, were protected under 18 active programs, three-quarters of which are linked to drug trafficking cases. In 2023, 32 evaluations were carried out by SIAT compared to around twenty in 2021. Five programs were validated in 2023 compared to two in 2022 and three in 2021. This is the first time that these figures have been revealed since the system existed. . In comparison, the Italian repentant program lists around a hundred people protected.
There is still a long way to go for France to have a repentant program worthy of the name, despite its almost twenty years of age. The legislator, for moral reasons making a criminal an untrustworthy person, has built an inextricable and almost unusable legal system which, to make matters worse, is the subject of a muffled institutional war between the judicial and police worlds. “Despite the proven effectiveness of this system, it remains very insufficiently used by investigation services and magistrates”admits Mr. Sommerer soberly.
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