“I don’t have the strength anymore!” It is a cry from the heart that the famous criminal lawyer Éric Morain (photo) pushed on Twitter. In a long letter, the one presented by the magazine QG as one of the thirty most powerful lawyers in France explained that he did not want “to be a lawyer in a few years […] in the midst of this world of justice that no longer listens to us”.
Éric Morain therefore indicated that at the end of 2022, he would definitively leave the profession in which he had embarked. For him, it was “Take the trouble and blows in place of our customers, not to plug a gangrenous system and in nothing, nothing, repaired”. The least we can say is that this message deserves to be heard. If he has become a kind of horse chestnut to denounce the homelessness of Justice, his immobility and the lack of his means, few are his auxiliaries who dare to denounce him and, above all, in coherence, to leave him. The messages have not failed to flow on the various social networks. “This job consumes us. Friendly thoughts at this crossroads”, reacts the lawyer Henri de Beauregard. Magistrate Charles Prats contented himself with a simple ” As I understand you… “ It is, moreover, striking that the messages come from all walks of life. Left, right, magistrates, priests, journalists… All seem unanimous to salute the career and the decision of Éric Morain.
And one day we want less.
Then another we don’t want anymore.
This is why I decided to leave the legal profession ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/sMNswY09XJ— Eric Morain (@EricMorain) August 26, 2022
However, the depressing observation made by Éric Morain is not new. Thus, in 2016, the Minister of Justice at the time, Jean-Jacques Urvoas, already warned: “The judicial institution is in the process of becoming homeless. » What has happened for six years? Nothing, seem to respond unanimously its actors. In 2021, a forum appeared to use exactly the same terms. In November 2020, same tone and same signal. A message repeated over and over each year, never listened to, never heard… Congested courts, endless procedures, ever more laxity, sentences never carried out… It’s a whole system that swells, cracks and cracks on all sides.
“Basically, this desire to do something else, it bothers us all, after fifty yearsentrusts us with a black dress from the Paris court. Probably because it is more and more difficult to believe in the institution but also because, after a certain age, we wonder about our desires and our passions. » Let’s bet it’s a bit of all of that. But, given the context, it sounds like a canoe thrown into the water as the iceberg looms on the horizon. The glacier is approaching and the lookout is looking elsewhere.
Crédit photo : Vianney MORAIN
