The 2022 promotion of the Nationwide College of Magistracy, in the course of the swearing-in ceremony on the courthouse in Bordeaux on February 10, 2022, is meant to be the fruits of their coaching. Throughout forty weeks, auditors of justice – college students on the Nationwide College of Magistracy (ENM) – go on internships in a jurisdiction. There, they check out totally different roles, each within the prosecutor’s workplace and in civil and prison court docket. It’s a second the place their vocation sharpens they usually acquire sensible expertise. Nonetheless, many auditors shortly change into disillusioned. They’re incessantly subjected to abuse: humiliating and degrading feedback, feeling belittled… To handle this subject, the Syndicat de la magistrature (SM, left-wing) of the 2021 promotion of the ENM arrange an nameless questionnaire about internships in jurisdictions a 12 months in the past to objectify the phenomenon.
The outcomes of the primary survey had been synthesized in a doc of round forty pages, distributed internally on the finish of 2023, which Le Monde had entry to. It reported practically 100 “reported circumstances of abuse”. The Syndicat de la magistrature wrote: “It’s greater than vital for the varsity to sort out this subject, which is much from being circumstantial or anecdotal. It’s skilled by a big variety of auditors and generally leads to critical conditions that might have prison penalties.” Intimately, the outcomes of the survey are enlightening. Whereas nearly all of respondents mentioned that they had a “good” or “excellent” expertise throughout their internship, a couple of quarter reported having a “truthful”, “poor” or “very poor” expertise, particularly on account of “abusive habits from a number of interlocutors” and feeling continuously evaluated.
General, 63% of respondents reported experiencing “a number of habits issues” from a Justice of the Peace or one other particular person on the court docket throughout their internship. 9 occasions out of ten, this habits was “humiliating or degrading”, usually repeated and coming from the internship supervisor, who’s normally a Justice of the Peace. Probably the most critical incidents had been few: seven folks reported “verbal abuse”, eight reported “racist, sexist, ableist, or homophobic habits”. Six respondents described experiencing harassment and one reported a “sexual abuse scenario”. The survey highlights the problems auditors face throughout their internships and the necessity for the Nationwide College of Magistracy to handle these considerations and guarantee a optimistic and secure studying setting for its college students.