Public Prosecutor (France)
A prosecutor requests a penalty during a hearing: caricature by Honoré Daumier. | |
| Occupation | |
|---|---|
| Names | Procureure de la République |
Activity sectors | Law Magistracy |
| Description | |
| Competencies | Civil procedure and Criminal procedure |
Education required | French National School for the Judiciary |
Related jobs | Judge Investigating judge |
In France, the Public Prosecutor is the magistrate of the public prosecutor's office responsible for criminal prosecution within the jurisdiction of a judicial court. The prosecutor is assisted by deputy prosecutors and assistant prosecutors, who are also magistrates, and together they form the prosecutor's office of a judicial court.
The French Ministry of Justice explains that:
the term "parquet" refers to the area where the magistrates of the public prosecutor's office were positioned: an enclosed space in the grand chamber, defined on three sides by the judges' seats and on the fourth by the bar, forming the heart of the courtroom—a sacred, enclosed space, a small park or parquet. It was crossed by the King's representatives to reach their place, and armed officers advanced there to report their investigations and draw up the official record for the parquet..