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The PNF marked by political suspicion since its creation

2021-03-01T19:52:31.880Z


DECRYPTION - Behind the scenes, the suspicion of a prosecution that cannot be independent, since the public prosecutors remain appointed by the executive, is played out indefinitely.


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.

Read also: Should we abolish the national financial prosecutor's office?

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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Source: lefigaro

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