At the Marseille Court

Last Sunday, we announced that a bill had just been circulated to the Chamber, seeking to create a sixth Chamber and a sixth Investigating Office at the Marseille Court of First Instance.
The explanatory statement demonstrates the need for this creation:
At the Marseille Court, the law of July 1, 1920, established a fifth Chamber, but this measure has proven incompletely effective. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) completely absorbs the activity of two Chambers, which rendered 6,853 judgments in 1924 and are, moreover, barely able to fulfill their mission. The three Chambers assigned to civil cases are even more congested. While the number of such cases did not reach 3,000 annually before the war, they rose to 8,449 in 1924. It is therefore not surprising that, despite the judges' efforts, the backlog now exceeds 3,000 cases.
Finally, the investigating magistrates are faced with an overwhelming workload: 3,255 investigations were opened in Marseille last year, which represents, given that there are six investigating chambers in the city, including five permanent and one temporary, an average of 540 cases for each of them.
Such a figure, higher than that of the investigating chambers in Paris, explains the backlog observed in a thousand proceedings.
It is therefore essential to create a 7th investigating chamber and a 6th chamber at the Marseille Court.