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The former head of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) Eliane Houlette filed a complaint Friday for "slanderous denunciation" against a deputy prosecutor who accused her of having indirectly allowed Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer to know that they were being wiretapped, a told AFP his lawyer Me Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi.
The former boss of the anti-corruption prosecution (2014-2019) is suing Patrice Amar, first deputy prosecutor of the PNF, for having accused her of having committed "the offenses of violation of professional secrecy and the secrecy of the investigation by informing her. girl ”, it is indicated in his complaint, consulted by AFP and filed with the Paris prosecutor on Friday morning.
"My conception of justice, guided by the concern for transparency and truth, cannot allow this recently disclosed slander to prosper with impunity," said Eliane Houlette in a statement sent to AFP.
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In a letter sent on January 27, 2019 to the Attorney General of Paris Catherine Champrenault and revealed by Le Point at the end of February, Mr. Amar reported how he had arrived at the conviction that Ms. Houlette had, by "incompetence", "panic" and " inexperience ”, allowed the former president to discover the wiretapping of his line hidden in the name of“ Paul Bismuth ”.
"Conflicts of interest", "harassment", "systematic obstruction"
Mr. Amar claimed that Ms. Houlette could have passed on information to her daughter, an intern at a law firm, who could then have passed it on to her boss.
And the latter could, via his partner and another tenor of the bar, prevent Me Thierry Herzog, counsel for Mr. Sarkozy, according to the hypothesis of the magistrate.
In his letter, the deputy prosecutor also listed several grievances against Ms. Houlette: "conflicts of interest", "harassment", "systematic obstruction".
Ms. Champrenault had dismissed this denunciation a month later, after hearing Ms. Houlette and her deputy prosecutor.
"I intend by this action to defend my honor, that of the national financial prosecutor's office which I directed for more than five years as well as the women and the men who, in the interest of all, work for justice", specified the former head of the PNF, retired since June 2019.
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