Professional association of the magistrates
The Professional association of the magistrates or APM is a trade union of magistrates created in 1981 the shortly after the first election of François Mitterrand and which was active in the years 1990.
Strongly anchored on the right, the APM fought the policy of the socialist Minister of Justice Robert Badinter. “Association was created to make part with the red judges and the current criminal policy whom she shows to destroy the legal organization”, writing in 1985 a journalist of the daily newspaper “Le Figaro”. In 1985, its president Jean Pringuez thus wishes “to put at the carpet the project of sovietization of justice”.
He counted in particular among his leaders Yves Bot, Alexandre Benmakhlouf, Dominique Matagrin, Georges Fenech, Alain Terrail.
APM affirmed the need for “the neutrality of the judge” and declared “the incompatibility between functions of trade-union responsibility and the membership of ministerial cabinets”. Yves Bot was however named adviser technical of the Minister for Justice Pierre Méhaignerie. Alexandre Benmakhlouf and Dominique Matagrin was respectively principal private secretary and technical adviser of Jacques Toubon, Minister of Justice of 1995 to 1997.
Businesses
APM was implied, of the time of its president Georges Fenech, now appointed U.M.P., in several businesses like the Affaire Falcone (Angolagate), and the business of the Calembour different anti-semite of sound directing Alain Terrail in the columns of its review (“ As well goes Levy to the furnace as at the end it burns ”) in connection with the substitute of the court of Toulon Albert Levy, then implied in the fight against the Toulon-native mixing business and politics.