Hervé Lehman is the author of “Be biased! Itinerary of the judicial left” (Éditions du Cerf, 2022).
That week in November 2023, three ministers appeared at the same time before criminal courts, including a former Minister of Justice, Michel Mercier and the current Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, the third being François Bayrou.
The following week, it would be the turn of the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt.
The least we can say is that justice is no longer afraid of prosecuting ministers in office, which shows that it has become largely independent of the executive.
But it is reasonable to think that the pendulum has swung too far and that the public prosecutor's offices, particularly the national financial prosecutor's office, as well as some investigating judges, give the impression of having opened the hunt for politicians, which has the effect very negative to reinforce the popular feeling of “all rotten”.
And this is where the three recent acquittals, those…
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