Marc Trévidic iconic anti-terrorism judge, forced ... - Le Point

The anti-terrorist judge Marc Trévidic responsible for many sensitive issues soon leave office, reached by a time limit in same post, he announced several media. “The law states that no one can remain more than ten years in a row in a specialized function. So there is not much to say. (…) So I had to leave late May 2016″ he tells The Obs . The use changes in the judiciary taking place twice a year, the magistrate asked his transfer to Lille as the first vice president of the high court, which was accepted on a list released in late March by the Ministry of Justice. This appointment is subject to confirmation by the Supreme Judicial Council.

La Voix du Nord , the judge said he was “delighted to arrive in spring significant and back into the daily life of justice. ” However, “I think in some time I have the blues of anti-terrorism,” said he told France Info. “Now I’m a little saturation so I try to see the bright side, saying that for at least some time I’ll do something else, change my mind and motivate me for the future. I have not say goodbye to anti-terrorism, it is not said that I will not come back in two or three years. But I do not even want to put my head the idea that I have regrets, it’s no use no regrets, it’s the law, it must be applied, “he further told France Info. However, he felt that on such specialized reports, “when we do not know the material arrives (and) it takes three or four years to be effective. The law was also made in order to get rid of irremovable judges who would not not for them, this is the problem of the law, you get rid of good and bad after 10 years. “

An emblematic figure of the anti-terrorist division of the Paris prosecutor, a specialist in jihadist networks It has also been particularly responsible for investigating cases like that of the monks of Tibhirine killed in 1996 in Algeria, the attack in Karachi in 2002 or that of the rue des Rosiers in 1982, for which he launched in early March of mandates international arrest against three suspects. He was also in charge of the investigation into the attack against the plane of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose pilots were French, considered the 1994 genocide of the trigger signal.