An air of paradox.
The Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), in its plenary formation, has just delivered the opinion that had been ordered from it last June by the President of the Republic.
He was asked to shed light on possible political pressure on the national financial prosecutor during the Fillon affair, in the midst of the presidential campaign.
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“It does not appear that 'pressure' was exerted on the magistrates of the general prosecutor's office near the Paris Court of Appeal or the PNF by the Minister of Justice, his office or the DACG
, affirms the CSM straight away.
The relations which were forged between the public prosecutor's office near the Paris Court of Appeal and the PNF, placed under the hierarchical authority of the first but responsible for conducting the investigation independently, were marked by tensions and antagonisms. , based on divergent legal analyzes, which may have been experienced by several PNF magistrates as vectors of “pressure”.
However, the term
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