The public prosecutor of Paris asked that another court deals with the complaint filed by Éric Dupond-Moretti, one of the lawyers targeted by the controversial investigation of the national financial parquet opened on the sidelines of the case of " tapping "which involved Nicolas Sarkozy.
"I decided to address this complaint to the Attorney General for a change of scenery," said Rémy Heitz, citing the "links" between the Paris prosecutor's office and the PNF. "We share the same premises" at the Paris court, "we are organically placed with the same jurisdiction", the Paris court, he said.
Eric Dupond-Moretti complained Tuesday against X for "violation of the intimacy of the private life and the secrecy of the correspondences" and "abuse of authority", following the revelation of large-scale investigations carried out by the PNF to identify the "mole" who could have informed Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that they were being tapped in a corruption case.
Six years of proceedings, without result
In February 2014, the PNF indeed asked to peruse the detailed telephone bills ("fadettes") of ten tenors of the bar, including Me Dupond-Moretti, and magistrates. It took almost six years for this procedure, without result, to be classified without continuation at the end of 2019.
Revealed by Le Point, this investigation caused a stir among lawyers and in the political world. The President of Paris, Me Olivier Cousi, who castigated an "extraordinary and worrying" investigation, has announced a forthcoming legal action.
After asking the Attorney General for a "detailed report", Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet ordered an inspection on Wednesday to shed light on this investigation.
