Luxembourg investigators visited prisons only 4 times in a year
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Luxembourg's Minister of Justice, Elisabeth Margue, responded to a parliamentary enquiry about the practice of personal visits by judge-investigators to prisons or remand centres. It appears that such moves are an exception.
Under the current Criminal Procedure Code, investigators can use videoconferencing for interrogations and hearings. Face-to-face visits are only carried out in rare cases, for example:
- If the person under investigation is seriously ill.
- If a person is considered extremely dangerous.
In the last year, such visits occurred only 4 times at the Uerschterhaff Prison Centre.
The Minister noted that videoconferencing and prison visits are a substitute for the traditional stage of transporting prisoners to court. However, personal visits require the participation of not only the judge but also other specialists (secretary, lawyer, interpreter), which slows down the processing of other cases in court.
