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Éric Dupond-Moretti, new Minister of Justice, courtrooms at the Chancellery

2020-07-07T17:41:58.947Z


PORTRAIT - The famous bubbling lawyer will have to start diplomacy.The son of an Italian housekeeper and a factory worker who died prematurely, the lawyer Éric Dupond-Moretti became, at 59 years old, Keeper of the Seals, without ever having played politics or begging for any job. What fate! This native of Maubeuge, who accumulated odd jobs to pay for studies that his mother could not finance alone, took his lawyer oath in Lille, in 1984. Twenty years later, with...


The son of an Italian housekeeper and a factory worker who died prematurely, the lawyer Éric Dupond-Moretti became, at 59 years old, Keeper of the Seals, without ever having played politics or begging for any job.

What fate! This native of Maubeuge, who accumulated odd jobs to pay for studies that his mother could not finance alone, took his lawyer oath in Lille, in 1984. Twenty years later, with the Outreau affair, he has conquered its stripes as the largest swashbuckler of its generation with, on the meter, an unparalleled number of acquittals (around 150).

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"EDM" is also a popular star, an unconditional lover of French song, who shares his life with Canadian artist Isabelle Boulay, who, coincidentally, celebrated her birthday on Monday. He is also a hunter (hawk) and a corrida lover. An actor whose show - a monologue on justice and the profession of lawyer - was still sold out before confinement. An emotional

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Source: lefigaro

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