Montpellier Assize trial postponed due to lawyers' strike

The trial on appeal of an accused accused of rape was to be held this week at the Montpellier court. The hearing will ultimately be postponed, disrupted by the lawyers' strike.

The trial of a man before the assize court has been postponed. Rémy Lévy, Bâtonnier of Montpellier was delighted with this outcome, according to our colleagues from Midi Libre. For the past week, Montpellier lawyers have not pleaded during the hearings.

Montpellier Assize trial postponed

Since last Monday, the magistrates have started a strike movement at the call of the National Council of Bars. This protest movement denounces the end of the autonomous funding system for lawyers' pensions.

The defendant, an Audois business owner accused of incestuous rape of a minor, remains in detention pending his trial, the date of which should be set soon. "I understand the position of the colleagues, but the first who suffer from this situation are our clients, with considerable stakes," said the lawyer for the accused, who very strongly plans to request a request for release if a a new trial date was not announced very quickly.

TRENDING: "Capital": lifestyle, special retirement plan for senators ... the report that scandalizes internet users

A report broadcast on Capital on M6 on January 12 particularly shocked internet users. The subject ? The lifestyle and retirement plan of senators. Figures that are bound to leap.

A report that leaves you speechless. Sunday, January 12, a subject broadcast in Capital presented by Julien Courbet, on M6, whose title was "Are our elected officials living beyond our means?" particularly shocked viewers who expressed themselves strongly on social networks while France has been pounding the pavement since December 5. In question ? A chapter devoted to the life of senators: their lifestyle, and current events require, their retirement. Capital journalists investigated a few parliamentarians from the Palais du Luxembourg. We can learn that many of their costs are borne by the Republic, that is to say by the taxpayers: their travel, whether by car, train or plane, their meals with the possibility of inviting whoever they want, without having to justify their identities, and without limit of ceiling ... Uses manifestly in conformity with the policy of the Senate.

Vincent Delahaye, senator from Essonne, interviewed for the occasion, shows invoices passed in professional expenses (purchase of book and computer software) and recognizes that this can go as far as the purchase of his clothes. Underpants and socks not included, you should not push the cap too far! Capital makes a small summary table of reimbursements, and there, it must be recognized that it hurts: 5,900 euros per month for professional expenses, 5,000 euros per year for transportation costs including a first class train or plane subscription for those who live far from Paris as well as a taxi package, 7,000 euros per year to pay their telephone subscriptions including those of their employees, a package of 1,200 euros per month to stay in Paris, an envelope of up to 8,402 euros per month the salaries of their assistants. Added to these amounts, the icing on the cake, is the senator's salary: 5,380 euros net per month. A total cost of 25,000 euros per month, the price paid by the community for a single senator. Enough to jump many people in front of their post, Sunday evening, given the staggering figures stated.

Many tweets have appeared to show how scandalized Internet users are by these practices: "So, they dress at the taxpayer's expense? The state dares to ask the people to make efforts, but I dream!", "I do not ask senators to earn the minimum wage, but it is time to end their privileges when politicians require taxpayers to tighten their belts! ", or," when you watch such a report, how you must not be revolted !! ".

And that's not all. Capital journalists add that the higher you go up the ladder, the more benefits there are. Office size, even higher salary, four chefs, all the best workers in France, officiate in the kitchens of the Senate presidency, in this case in the service of Gérard Larcher, President of the upper house. The Senate manages its budget as it wishes according to a principle of independence from political power. And what about the angry subject? Retirement. Obviously, senators have a special, very special and very favorable regime.

Witness Hélène Lipietz. This former senator, who has become a restaurateur in Avalon, in Burgundy, recalls her experience. While she has only completed a half-term, namely two years and five months, she confides the amount of what she will receive in retirement for these two years worked: "I will have something like 1,100 euros in retirement. " And there, beware, it will hurt again. Capital has established another summary table on the amounts received according to the number of mandate: 2,190 euros net of pension per month for a mandate of six years, 4,380 euros net monthly for twelve years, the maximum being 7,397 euros for a contribution of at least twenty years. All this made possible thanks to a very generous pension fund. In the midst of pension reform, this system has enough to make the French leap forward by way of exemplarity. Privileges in the process of disappearing? Not sure. In any case, this report made it possible to ask a question for most viewers: how to become a senator?