Edouard Levrault, Patrice Amar and Eliane Houlette, whose ex-avocado had complained before becoming Minister, are summoned before the Superior Council of Magistrates for breaches.
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It is a temporal paradox as justice sometimes knows how to produce it. Three magistrates on whom the Minister of Justice had asked for the summer of administrative investigations these days in the summer of 2020 in disciplinary hearing before the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM). But the conditions under which Eric Dupond-Moretti had ordered investigations concerning them in the General Inspectorate of Justice, at the origin of his indictment in July 2021 for “illegal taking of interest”, will eventually be examined by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) in 2023.
Edouard Levrault, former investigating judge in Monaco, is summoned before the disciplinary training of the judges of the headquarters of the Superior Council of the Magistracy (CSM) Wednesday, August 31. Patrice Amar, first vice-prosecutor at the National Financial Public Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), and Eliane Houlette, the ex-patron of the PNF, will pass before the disciplinary training reserved for the magistrates of the prosecution respectively on September 20 and 21, and September 26 and 27 . All three had been strongly taken to task in June 2020 by Mr. Dupond-Moretti, then a lawyer, and complaints had been filed against them. A few weeks later, who became minister, he launched administrative investigations into these magistrates, on the basis of which Prime Minister Jean Castex hired these disciplinary proceedings.
The CSM will hardly be able to elude the debate on conflicts of interest, even if it is at the Court of Justice of the Republic, and in itself, that he will probably return to decide on their criminal qualification. François Saint-Pierre, the lawyer of Edouard Levrault and Patrice Amar, intends to bring iron on this field on August 31 before the disciplinary training chaired by Christophe Soulard, the brand new first president of the Court of Cassation and, to This title, president of the CSM.
a legal procedure?
He is accused of Edouard Levrault, now vice-president of the Judicial Court of Nice, a “breach of the obligations of prudence, reserve and delicacy”. The magistrate, whose non-renewal of his detachment as an investigating judge in Monaco in the summer of 2019 had thrown discredit on the independence of Monegasque justice, had expressed itself in several media. He denounced what he saw as an obstacle to his investigations in the Rybolovlev-Bouvier affair while relatives of Prince Albert were targeted.
The main accusation made in June 2020 by Mr. Dupond-Moretti, announcing the filing of a complaint against Mr. Levrault, whose methods of “cowboy” he denounced, was the “violation of the secrecy of the ‘Instruction “. The magistrate had mentioned, in a program of France 3, the case of a high Monegasque police officer which he had indicted. It turns out that the future minister was the lawyer.
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