Did someone warn Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that their occult lines, say Bismuth, had been tapped?
It is to answer this question that the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) opened, in parallel with investigations into suspicions of corruption and influence peddling targeting the former Head of State in the Azibert affair, a investigation to identify this suspected mole in the judiciary.
Since the revelation of this procedure long remained secret and then closed without follow-up, the Sarkozy camp has continued to tap on the methods deemed unfair by the PNF.
He sees a relentlessness on the part of the financial magistrates.
However, Le Point revealed this Wednesday that within the PNF itself, a vice-prosecutor ... has acquired the opposite conviction.
This magistrate, Patrice Amar, on the contrary suspects his ex-boss Eliane Houlette, of having sought to protect Sarkozy!
At least that is what he said in a letter sent to the general prosecutor of Paris in January 2019. According to the weekly, the deputy prosecutor, whose relations with the former head of the PNF are appalling, makes it known. of his theory on the identity of Sarkozy's informant.
It could be Pierre-François Veil, a lawyer close to Thierry Herzog.
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Moreover, he wrote to him the day when the former president and his council would have learned of the existence of the wiretaps.
How would Simone Veil's son have known?
Patrice Amar notes that his partner is a lawyer who defended another lawyer in a financial case.
However, Eliane Houlette's daughter did an internship in the latter's office.
Conclusion of the PNF deputy prosecutor: her ex-boss could have mentioned the occult line connected from the ex-president to her daughter in an innocuous discussion and she herself would have spoken to her internship supervisor.
The latter would then have warned Pierre-François Veil, who would in turn have warned his friend Herzog ... This would explain, according to Patrice Amar, why Eliane Houlette, embarrassed to have incidentally become the mole, would have taken nine days to initiate investigations into the suspicions of influence peddling that appeared during the Bismuth wiretaps.
A delay prejudicial to the investigation.
An "unsupported" theory
With these accusations, is Patrice Amar part of a real conviction?
Or is he settling internal accounts?
According to a source who worked on the investigation, the theory of the deputy prosecutor, fragile, was not shared by the anti-corruption police.
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"It is an intellectual construction of the investigations and the unsupported deductions", affirms this source, which adds nevertheless: "The conviction of the investigators is that there was indeed a mole even if it could not be identified.
These revelations come as Nicolas Sarkozy and his counsel will know their judgment in the Azibert affair on Monday.