Overview
- The justice minister issued the order on June 7 for prosecutors to re‑examine about 70,000 complaints involving minors and to complete the review by July 14.
- Local pushback from the Lyhanna case produced immediate action in Val‑de‑Marne where police raids led the Créteil prosecutor to open an information judiciaire and ten youths were placed under formal investigation, with two remanded and eight released under judicial control.
- Créteil told reporters it must recheck 1,641 dossiers in three weeks and has reassigned eight magistrates full time to the task, including about 300 cases with identified suspects and roughly 100 with prior records.
- Police units in Angers, Cholet and Saumur report roughly 1,000 files of violence against minors but only 16 investigators available to handle them, a staffing gap unions say reflects failures across the judicial chain.
- Officials warn the accelerated review will force parquets and police to reprioritize or suspend other work, which could speed some prosecutions but also expose further backlogs and weaken routine victim support and protection.