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Dupond-Moretti: "I defended the magistrates when they were accused of laxity"

2020-10-05T18:59:48.980Z


EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - Slowness of justice, drugs, delinquency, terrorism… The Minister of Justice displays his convictions.


On the occasion of the presentation of his first circular on penal policy, Éric Dupond-Moretti looks back on his first steps as a minister, wants to close the dispute between him and magistrates and urges prosecutors to speed up the course of justice.

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LE FIGARO.

- You have been serving as Keeper of the Seals for three months.

Has the lawyer turned into a politician?

How do you live this metamorphosis?

Éric DUPOND-MORETTI.

- Slowly but surely.

There are plenty of things that attack you when you become Minister of Justice.

Serving France, the Republic, cannot leave you indifferent - and I express it in a very euphemistic way.

On a more practical aspect, you have to learn to work a lot… This implies less freedom of tone, that's obvious;

but another freedom, that of doing.

Have you found your place in government?

What are your relations with the president and the other ministers?

My relations with the president and my fellow ministers are

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Source: lefigaro

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