“If since 1789, and in a constant manner, it has corresponded to the people to judge (...), there have been accidents, that is to say, exceptions. And these accidents, these exceptions, have always been a survival of the monarchic conception of justice”.
François Mitterrand, in the National Assembly in 1963, opposing the State Security Court created by De Gaulle to repress his opposition.
Firmly opposed to the institutionalization of emergency justice, to its trivialization and to the inexorable broadening of its objectives, the firm fights against the construction of procedures whose foundations are unknown, and against the logic of generalized archiving implemented by the intelligence services.
Consequently, the firm has been involved in some of the most sensitive cases in recent years, whether they involve attacks or attempted attacks, on a national or international scale, or the alleged financing of autonomist, independence or revolutionary groups or movements.
As activists from the very beginning, committed to opposing special justice and the special jurisdictions of the so-called anti-terrorist courts and assize courts, their lawyers provide daily assistance to men, women and groups accused of specific crimes or criminal conspiracies.
Examples of cases handled :
- Defense of Yassine Atar, accused in the trial for the attacks of November 13, 2015;
- Cancellation by the Paris Investigating Court of the entire proceedings against a person accused of planning a terrorist attack and provisionally detained as such;
- Acquittal obtained before the 16th Correctional Chamber of the Paris Judicial Court specializing in terrorism in the context of a criminal conspiracy case involving 13 people;
- Approval of the management of a Kurdish militant by the 16th Criminal Chamber of the Paris Court of First Instance specializing in terrorism in the context of a procedure for intentional damage in relation to a terrorist enterprise ;
- Defense before the European Court of Human Rights of a terrorism suspect subject to surveillance under the Intelligence Act of July 24, 2015.