The proposal was delayed: After almost three months of vacation and interim, Eric Dupond Moretti decided to propose Stéphane Hardouin to become the new prosecutor of the Republic of Créteil.
Even if it means being blamed for the choice of the king.
If the Superior Council of the Judiciary doubts this choice, it will replace Laure Beccuau at the head of the fourth public prosecutor's office in France.
The magistrate is none other than the justice advisor to the Prime Minister, Jean Castex.
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At each presidential term, the trains of appointments make cringe in the ranks of the judiciary very attentive to the table of advancement and the rules that preside over it. In this case, the magistrates have their eyes riveted on the list of contenders for this post. And it is true that there was no shortage of heavyweights. Eric Maurel, current prosecutor of Nîmes, Eric Vaillant, prosecutor of Grenoble, and Robert Finielz, prosecutor of Cayenne, as many jurisdictions which are far from being sinecures and where it is necessary to prove oneself day by day.
"It is true
, notes Cécile Mamelin, national secretary of the Union Syndicale des Magistrates,
that Stéphane Hardouin was the last on the list of candidates and that his seniority in his post is only two years, while the Council national judiciary imposed the rule, albeit unwritten, of three years. We can't wait to read his enlightened opinion, ”
smiles the trade unionist. The magistrate should be heard by the wise men of Boulevard Haussmann at the beginning of December. Cécile Mamelin also recalls
“this propensity to resettle advisers at the end of their mandate. Stéphane Hardouin was only a prosecutor in Compiègne for two years ”
.
But also to recognize that at the central, we develop other qualities that can be valued in the new assignments.
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Even more, this appointment comes at a time when the magistrates' unions are at loggerheads with Eric Dupond-Moretti who was forced to deport himself in favor of the Prime Minister for cases he had to deal with as a lawyer.
Files that Stéphane Hardouin had to know.