The little humiliation session continues for Eric Dupond-Moretti. As was foreseeable, he was summoned before the investigating committee of the Court of Justice of the Republic on July 16, for a possible indictment. The aim of the judges is to investigate the conflict of interest of which the Keeper of the Seals is alleged to have been guilty. Last January, in fact, three complaints from magistrates' unions and one complaint from Anticor accused Eric Dupond-Moretti of illegal taking of interests, after he had carried out inspections and successive administrative investigations against four magistrates. A legally broad qualification, but dishonorable since it suggests, as a close friend of the Minister of Justice noted, "
that the Minister would have taken from the fund, which is not the case
”.
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Three of the magistrates concerned by these inspections are under the conduct of their preliminary investigation into the case of lawyers' fadettes in connection with the case of the wiretapping of Nicolas Sarkozy.
The other file being that of the magistrate stationed in Monaco, Édouard Levrault, who would be accused of his investigative methods.
In the eyes of his detractors, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who was previously involved in these two cases as a lawyer, would have abused his prerogatives as Keeper of the Seals.
While the defense of the Keeper of the Seals argues that all the documents were sent to the Court of Justice of the Republic last January, the judges intend to question the minister after having already heard his detractors and several witnesses during these last months.