The Court of Justice of the Republic on Tuesday, June 14, rejected the lawsuits of the Minister of Justice Eric Dupont-Moretti, who are accused of taking illegal interest from July 2021, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Court of Cassation said at the request of AFP.
Seized by the Seal Guardians’ lawyers, the CJR’s investigative committee rejected their request to hear Celine Pariso, president of the Union Syndicale des Magistrates (USM), one of the unions behind the Anticor protests, to condemn the conflict. situations of interest in both files. He also refused to listen to Henry-Claude Le Gaul, the retired honorary magistrate and former president of the CJR from 2000-2012. The same investigative committee asked for his opinion on the procedure for invalidating the Minister’s claims.
The Commission, considering the request to cancel the procedure, considered it acceptable, but did not satisfy it. «These are expected decisions, which are in line with the “jurisprudence” adopted by the investigation committee in this case.“Responded to AFP, the minister’s lawyers My Christoph Ingrain և Remy Lauren. «We will challenge them in the Court of Cassation“, They added. CJR judges completed their investigation in mid-April. On May 9, the Prosecutor General of the Court of Cassation, François Moline, who represents the Ministry of Public Affairs in the CJR, demanded that a trial be held for the Minister, judging that there were “sufficient loads“Against him.
Suspected of using the position of a lawyer
The minister, who joined the government in the summer of 2020 and was re-appointed chancellor after the re-election of Emanuel Macron in May, is suspected of using his position to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had problems. starting with two cases lawyer. The first concerns the administrative inquiry he ordered in September 2020 against three PTF magistrates who had examined his phone accounts in detail (“fadetsWhen he was a lawyer. In the second, he is accused of instituting administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge in Monaco, Eduard Lևro, who has charged one of his former clients.
Eric Dupont-Moretti disputes the facts, claiming that he only did it.follow the recommendations of his administration«. In March-April, he was summoned for a re-examination of the CSTO master’s degree and refused to answer their questions.
In early May, the Attorney General’s Office of the Court of Cassation rejected another U.S. complaint accusing the minister of “The leadership of the Cain Court of Appeal“Presided over by Marie-Lor Piazza, while”serious incident“He was against them in 2016, when he was a lawyer. When this complaint was revealed, the Ministry of Justice announced that a defamation complaint would be filed against it. According to Eric Dupont-Moretti’s circle, this was not done in the end.
Source: Le Figaro
