On May 9, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation François Molins, who represents the public prosecutor before the CJR, requested a trial for the minister, judging that there were “sufficient charges” for him for him .
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The Court of Justice of the Republic rejected, Tuesday, June 14, several requests from the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, indicted since July 2021 for illegal taking of interests, underlined the general prosecutor’s office cassation.
Entry by lawyers for the Keeper of the Seals, the CJR’s investigation committee rejected the hearing request from Céline Parisot, president of the union union of magistrates (USM), one of the unions at the ‘Origin of complaints filed with the anticor association to denounce situations of conflict of interest in two files.
She also refused to audition Henri-Claude Le Gall, a honorary retirement magistrate and former president of the CJR between 2000 and 2012. This same investigation commission had requested her opinion on the procedure concerning requests in nullity deposited by the Minister. Also seized of a request for annulment of the procedure, the commission judged it admissible but did not grant it.
“These are expected decisions that are part of the” case law “adopted by the investigation commission in this file”, reacted M es Christophe Ingrain and Rémi Lorraine, Minister’s lawyers. “We will challenge them before the Court of Cassation,” they added.
“sufficient charges”
The CJR magistrates finished mid-April their investigations in this file. On May 9, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, François Molins, who represents the prosecution before the CJR, requested a trial for the minister, judging that there were “sufficient charges” for him.
The Minister, who entered the government in the summer of 2020 and then renewed the Chancellery after the re -election in May of Emmanuel Macron, is suspected of having taken advantage of his function to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had had mesh from, when he was a lawyer in two files.
The first concerns the administrative inquiry he ordered in September 2020 against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) which had peeled his detailed telephone bills (“fadettes”) when he was a lawyer. In the second, he is accused of having diligent administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge detached in Monaco, Edouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients.
Eric Dupond-Moretti disputes the facts, ensuring that “follow the recommendations of his administration”. Convened in March and April to be re -examined by the magistrates of the CJR, he had refused to answer their questions.