By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

France is a country where justice no longer prevails, as is evident by not just the Islamophobia that has gripped its rulers, but also last month’s massive walkout by judiciary officials declaring “sick justice” and “justice nowhere”.
Yet the regime in Paris feels no inhibitions in interfering in the judicial affairs of other countries, as is evident by President Emmanuel Macron’s tirade against the Islamic Republic for the re-incarceration of a convicted Iranian national for violating the rules of house-arrest while serving a five-year jail sentence for spying.
What a flawed judicial system the French have, because of the lack of sense of the executive authorities regarding justice in the society!
In mid-December, most of France’s black and red-robed judges had staged a walkout, as judges, lawyers, magistrates, clerks and other court workers stood outside courthouses and France’s budget ministry in Paris to protest against hurried legal proceedings.
The fact that France’s largest trade union of judges – the conservative Union Syndicale des Magistrats – approved the said strike, which was also supported by the left-wing Syndicat de la Magistrature that represents about 30% of magistrates, shows the worsening judicial situation in France.
The nationwide protest by France’s judiciary came three weeks after thousands of judges and court clerks had signed an open letter accompanying an emotional plea about the poor state of France’s courts published in Le Monde newspaper.
With such a sordid record of human rights, the regime in Paris which uses its deformed judicial system to issue discriminatory laws against Muslims, such as the banning of the Hijab and the frequent arbitrary closure of mosques, is trying to poke its nose in the affairs of Iranian Fariba Adelkhah, just because the lady happens to reside in Paris and is engaged in dubious activities at Po’s Center for International Studies (CERI).
Adelkhah was arrested in Iran in June 2019 on espionage charges. She was sentenced in May 2020 to five years’ imprisonment. In October of that year, she was placed under house arrest with an electronic bracelet, which she violated and was thus re-incarcerated.
Kazem Gharibabadi, the Judiciary Chief’s Deputy for International Affairs and Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, in reaction to a meddling statement by the French Foreign Ministry, said: “Ms. Adelkhah is a national of the Islamic Republic of Iran and we strongly condemn the interference of other countries in the judicial process”
So, it is better for Macron and his cabinet to improve the rotting judicial system of France and stop their campaign of Islamophobia, instead of meddling in the affairs of the other countries when the French judicial system is, according to its own judges, is sick and brimming with injustice.