The judges' coup

Author: Eric Zemour
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: The book employs a narrative and event-based approach to tell the story of France's long-outdated and severely restrictive judicial model, which, under internal turmoil and external civilizational stimuli, gave birth to the revolutionary idea of judges adapting to the times. It also introduces contemporary legal heroes such as Eva Joly, René von Rumbeck, Philippe Courrèges, and Eric Altmann. They, through a chain reaction involving police-judge-media alliances, successfully prosecuted numerous high-profile figures under the new democratic legislative system: bosses, politicians, mayors, or former cabinet members were not averse to confronting them, summoning them, and subjecting them to investigations, bringing France's new breed of judges' investigative methods to an unprecedented, almost water-tight level. Ultimately, they achieved the goal of improving society in the name of the noble principle of truth and human rights, under the banner of a rule-of-law state, and adjusting social relations through legal principles.