Will the current Minister of Justice be tried?
The Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, François Molins, is requesting a trial against Éric Dupond-Moretti before the Court of Justice of the Republic for suspicion of illegal taking of interests.
Auditioned several times, the Minister of Justice is suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle scores with magistrates with whom he had had trouble when he was a lawyer in two cases.
The first concerns the administrative investigation he ordered in September 2020 against three magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) who had had his detailed telephone bills peeled ("fadettes") when he was still a star in the courtrooms.
In the other, he is accused of having initiated administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge seconded to Monaco, Édouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients and whose methods he had criticized " cowboy”.