“It is tiring already to be called upon, ad vocatus, day and night, but even more so to fight against an even more seized, rusted, clogged circuit.” This chain, as criminal lawyer Eric Moran reminds us in a press release shared on Twitter on Friday, August 26, is the chain of justice. The same one she just broke up with ad vitam eternalam.
Ranked among the 30 most powerful lawyers in France by GQ magazine in 2019, this Paris bar tenor, sometimes a criminal lawyer, sometimes a defender of natural wine and the vintners associated with its production, hangs up his robe after 26 years. “This dress is full of wrinkles and pain”, he wrote. Now the former lawyer says that he is somewhat tired, and above all, he is tired of the current judicial system. “A few years from now, I don’t want to be a lawyer at 60, then 65, then 70, then more, in this world of justice that no longer listens to us. I think I don’t have the strength anymore.”he assures in a pamphlet-like text that mixes sadness, bitterness and melancholy.
Eric Moran, among other things, condemns: “The more discrediting the non-reforms of justice“. He also regrets it “Hearings have been postponed for a year or more, [les] ever longer notice periods, especially in family matters; [les] petitions for which we sometimes wait for years; [les] exponential hardware errors, [les] expanding discussions, [la] forced multiplication of file presentations and videos […].He adds that “In 5 years, the time taken to even get answers or information has increased tenfold due to our litigation clients.”
“I didn’t choose this job for this coming collapse.”, shouts again. Eric Moran, 52, has distinguished himself as an attorney in several cases that have received significant coverage since the early 2000s. He has, for example, defended victims of terrorism at trials in Nice, Magnanville and St. -Etienne du Rouvray as a defender of the National Federation of Victims of Assaults and Collective Accidents (FENVAC).
“After taking the oath of philanthropy, we promised to take the trouble and blows instead of our customers, not to clog the gangrenous system and repair nothing, nothing.”
It was he who defended General Philippe Rondot in the Clearstream Affair in the early 2000s. He helped the soldier through his 140 hours of hearing. In 2018, learning about the situation of France’s oldest prisoner, Michel Cardon, who was convicted of murder in 1977, he remained loyal to his side and formulated a clemency appeal to the president of the republic, as a result of which he was released on parole. The 67-year-old man was released from prison in June 2018.
Eric Moran has also defended several female victims of sexual assault, including two of Tariq Ramadan’s alleged victims. Or a cyberattack like Marlene Schiappa, Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy, a journalist Set free Nadia Daam or former adult movie star Nikita Bellucci.
So many feats of arms that have contributed to the solid reputation he now enjoys and the deep respect many of his peers hold for him. “After taking an oath of philanthropy, it means promising to take the trouble and the hits for our customers, not clog up the gangrenous system and fix nothing, nothing.”, he points out. Comparing his profession as a lawyer “old love”Éric Morain doesn’t deny it and even goes so far as to plead in his favor. He invites her “Young and not so young partners” to love “This profession intensively” and continue “Believing in the mornings, with faith and even with madness.”
Many lawyers, judges and journalists responded to this statement on Twitter. “When such a lawyer puts down his robe, it is a defeat of justice. Sadness. Huge sadness. But respect. Much respect…”Alain Yakubovich, a lawyer from Paris, was particularly moved.
Source: Le Figaro
