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Éric Dupond-Moretti, the PNF and the "fadettes": is Justice sufficiently independent?

2020-07-15T10:18:15.940Z


VERIFICATION - The National Financial Prosecutor's Office has examined the telephone records of lawyers, including Éric Dupond-Moretti, who has been appointed since Keeper of the Seals. Will the report of the General Inspectorate of Justice be objective?


THE QUESTION . The Inspectorate General of Justice has been sailing under a stream of criticism since the former Keeper of the Seals, Nicole Belloubet, asked it to determine " the extent and proportionality of the investigations carried out and the procedural framework for the preliminary investigation " concerning the examination of " fadettes " (detailed telephone records, note). To identify a possible mole within it as part of the Sarkozy-Bismuth affair, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) analyzed the data of great tenors of the Paris bar between 2014 and 2019.

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The situation has gotten worse since the appointment as Keeper of the Seals of Éric Dupond-Moretti, who is one of the lawyers targeted by the PNF. Since his arrival on Place Vendôme, he has certainly withdrawn his complaint against X for “ violation of the privacy of private life and the secrecy of correspondence ” and “ abuse of authority ”, but he remains one of the main names of this case. Magistrates' unions recall that Eric

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Source: lefigaro

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