Nicole Belloubet: “France Is Striving To Keep Abreast With Development Of Algerian Justice”

French Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet praised Monday in Algiers the remarkable Algerian experience in the modernization of the justice sector, expressing her admiration at the salutary reforms adopted by the justice ministry over the past period notably regarding the use of technology and digitization, which will facilitate judicial procedures and bring the citizens closer to justice.

Mrs. Nicole Belloubet, said she was “impressed by the speed” of the process of modernization of the justice sector in Algeria.

“I am impressed by the speed of the implementation of the process of modernization of the justice sector in Algeria. I had heard about it and wanted to see how it was done, because we are in France building this type of modernization, which is very complex,” Ms. Belloubet told the press on the sidelines of her visit to the headquarters at Dar El Beida suburban municipality of the Directorate General for the Modernization of Justice.

“We have difficulties in France to achieve this result in such a short time,” she also told the Director General of Modernization, Akka Abdelhakim, who gave her detailed explanations about the main lines of this process.

A process whose “indispensability” will foster a “more efficient and faster” justice for the benefit of judges and citizens, on the one hand, and for a justice that is “more transparent and more easily accessible” to citizens, on the other hand, she noted.

The visiting French Minister of Justice has also shown a particular “interest” in the computerized and intranet system enabling the justice sector in particular to “centralize and digitize” all its data and archives, the oldest of which date back to the year 1801.

Mr. Akka informed his French host that nearly 1,000 officials, “all of them hailing from the Ministry of Justice”, are currently working to fully implement this computerization process, which has been underway since 2014, including 100 development engineers working “full-time”.

It should be noted that as part of her tour that led to the various judicial bodies in the capital, Mrs Nicole Belloubet offered in a press statement her condolences to the Algerian people and the Government following the death on Monday of Constitutional Council’s President Mr. Mourad Medelci at the age of 76 after a long illness.