The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) seemed in the hot seat, dented by the successive crises which have continued to shake it.
The decision of the Paris court will give it some air.
If the decision concerning the "wiretapping" affair of Nicolas Sarkozy does not completely follow the PNF's requisitions, its severity reinforces the work of the latter so often contested for its muscular investigative methods.
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Latest scandal to date, that of the fadettes of lawyers peeled, precisely, in the case of the tapping of the former head of state, which earned two inspections at this young institution, created in 2013 in the wake of the Cahuzac case.
We remember that Jean-François Bohnert, the new financial prosecutor, not accountable for all of these procedures, which took place before his arrival, three times defended the entire file and the work carried out by his magistrates.
The first time when he publicly hammered that the review of the fadettes had respected
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