"
I am very serene
" reaffirmed Tuesday October 5 the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti questioned on his indictment in July for "
illegal taking of interests
", categorically ruling out a resignation from the government.
"
If you knew what I have done since I was indicted, you would see that I am fully Minister of Justice,
" said the Minister of Justice invited to BFMTV.
To read also Éric Dupond-Moretti: "
It is the company which makes evolve the law and not the opposite
"
Asked whether he had considered resigning, he replied: "
Not at all
".
“
If I had wanted to quit, I would have quit,
” he said.
Recognizing that his indictment had been "
very difficult to live
" for him and his relatives, Eric Dupond-Moretti denounced "
a war
" declared according to him "
by certain representatives of unions
" of magistrates.
His indictment, a first for a serving Minister of Justice
On July 16, after six hours of questioning by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), Eric Dupond-Moretti was indicted, a first for a serving Minister of Justice. He is suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had trouble starting when he was a lawyer, which he refutes.
The CJR, the only jurisdiction empowered to prosecute and try members of the government for crimes and offenses committed "
in the exercise of their functions
", had opened a judicial investigation in January for "
illegal taking of interests
" after complaints from trade unions magistrates and the Anticor association denouncing conflict of interest situations in two cases. The first concerns the administrative investigation ordered in September 2020 by the Minister of Justice against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) who had his detailed telephone records
scrutinized
("
fadettes
When he was still a court star.
In the second case, he is accused of having initiated administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge seconded to Monaco, Edouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients and whose methods he criticized "
cowboy
”.
The potential conflicts of interest of the new Minister of Justice, raised upon his arrival at the Chancellery by the magistrates' unions, had finally led at the end of October 2020 to remove him from the follow-up of his former affairs, now under the control of Matignon.