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Auch Prosecutor Leaves Post to Join Bordeaux Criminal Service

The move raises questions about responsibility for failures in child‑protection cases, including magistrate safety and the Chancellerie's role.

Clémence Meyer était la procureure de la République d'Auch en charge de l'affaire Lyhanna. [Matthieu RONDEL / AFP]
Clémence Meyer, la procureure d’Auch, lors d’une conférence de presse sur l’ouverture de l’enquête pour l’enlèvement de Lyhanna, le 31 mai 2026 à Auch (Gers).
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Overview

  • Sources said Monday that Clémence Meyer has left her role as procureure of Auch and is to join the parquet général de Bordeaux's criminal service in the coming days.
  • Two IGJ reports cleared Meyer personally but identified procedural failings by a substitute at the Auch office and said that substitute could face disciplinary action.
  • Meyer filed a complaint after receiving death threats, was placed under police protection, and remains a focal point of public anger over the handling of repeated complaints about the suspect Jérôme Barella.
  • Official statements present the transfer as a mobility requested by Meyer, while several outlets report the Chancellerie encouraged her to seek the move, producing contested accounts of whether it was voluntary.
  • Claude Derens, a former Auch substitute now avocat général at Agen, is reported to take interim charge of the parquet d'Auch from 1 September and the Justice Ministry has withdrawn one magistrate's authority to handle minor cases in response to the case's failings.