The best-known magistrate in France rewinds his career and offers an insight into the legal world.
Former public prosecutor François Molins, now retired, announced Thursday on the X network (formerly Twitter) that he would publish his “Memoirs” next week.
“I am very happy to announce the publication of my book
In the name of the French people
”, which will appear on February 21 by Flammarion, he wrote.
“Justice is delivered in the name of the French people who have the right to know its twists and turns,” he stressed.
I am very happy to announce the publication of my book "In the name of the French people" on February 21.
Justice is rendered in the name of the French people who have the right to know its twists and turns.
Published by @Ed_Flammarion with the collaboration of @chloe8triomphe pic.twitter.com/wa13hReDjx
— François Molins (@francois_molins) February 15, 2024
“Outrage at injustice”
A major figure in the fight against terrorism during the attacks that hit France in recent years, particularly between 2012 and 2018, François Molins delivers an “intimate and captivating” story, indicates the summary of the work, written in collaboration with journalist Chloé Triomphe.
An immersion “in the heart of the judicial institution to which he dedicated himself for forty-six years, always with the same compass: indignation in the face of injustice”.
The book also mentions several trials in major political-financial cases, including “Bygmalion, Cahuzac, Dupond-Moretti”, to which the magistrate contributed by embodying “an inflexible counter-power”.
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The senior magistrate left office in June 2023, retiring after “forty-six and a half years in the service” of justice.
He had ended his brilliant career at the Court of Cassation, where he had served as prosecutor general since 2018. The man who had left his mark with his freedom of tone is now a lecturer on anti-terrorism at Sciences-po, since September 2023. He also became an associate professor at the Catholic Institute of Vendée.
“I am making the choice, at retirement age, to continue to serve, but to serve differently,” he confided a few days ago to Ouest-France.