Label: Justice

At the height of the Renaissance, animal trials

DOSSIER «L'HOMME ET L'ANIMAL», Enzo Santacroce | Animals occupy a central place in the human environment. They are both endearing companions and savage, aggressive beasts to be slaughtered. This ambivalence is actually our own, since ethologists have demonstrated that the continuity between animal and human behavior is based on the search for food, material security and habitat construction. Seduction games are no exception. The similarities are sometimes so disturbing that the definition of man, and his place within nature, are constantly called into question. In the long history of these ambiguous relationships, animal trials, a veritable institution between the 16th and 17th centuries, bear witness to the fascination that animals hold for mankind.
The Sarah Halimi affair reveals France's fractures

The Sarah Halimi affair reveals France's fractures

ANALYSE, Nadine Richon | Il y a exactement cinq ans, en avril 2017, débutait l’affaire Sarah Halimi, cette retraitée juive assassinée par son voisin de 27 ans, jugé totalement irresponsable. Aujourd’hui, la boucle est bouclée: close sur le plan judiciaire, l’histoire a été enterrée en janvier 2022 avec le rapport d’une commission parlementaire déchirée, mais confirmant l’absence de dysfonctionnements policiers et judiciaires. Nathanaël Majster, l’un des avocats consultés par la famille de Sarah Halimi, nous décrit les pistes possibles pour relancer cette affaire, qui reste une blessure et une insulte pour les juifs, se reconnaissant ou non dans «la communauté».
Is social justice justice?

Is social justice justice?

Last May, in a videoconference speech on the theme of financing development in poor countries, our current President Simonetta Sommaruga defended her vision of a global society: less unequal, more sustainable and better able to meet the challenges of societal change, including the current pandemic and climate change. But if this banal speech struck me, it's because she also wanted tomorrow's world to be... fairer! By this, the Socialist Federal Councillor didn't really mean justice, but social justice. So what is this notion that we come across so often? Does it have anything to do with traditional justice?