Traffic courts in Marseille | M6 | 66 minutes

If you run a red light in Marseilles, you’ll have him to deal with. Alain Sobrero, a retired civil servant, is a local magistrate in the courts, where 90% of cases are for road traffic offences. The Bouches du Rhône department holds the record for bad driving with more than 130 deaths in 2007. And yet, when faced with the judge, drivers are often hypocritical and contest their punishment. How are these often stormy hearings managed? What criteria does the judge use to take away a driver’s license? A report from the heart of the judicial machine.