Eric Dupond-Moretti was the guest of “20 Heures” on France 2, Wednesday November 29. “I never intended to take revenge”assured the Minister of Justice, who said he wanted “turn the page”. The Minister of Justice was acquitted by the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) earlier today. In these conditions, the former tenor of the bar “will be able to continue to carry out its action” within the government, declared Elisabeth Borne on the social network “I am delighted”, added the Prime Minister. Emmanuel Macron received the Minister of Justice in the afternoon, “at the end of these three years of procedure in order to review current and future projects to continue to improve the public service of Justice”, France Télévisions learned from the Elysée. This live is now over.
No intentional element, according to the CJR. The judges of the Court of Justice of the Republic, composed mainly of parliamentarians from all political stripes (12 out of 15), did not follow the requisitions of the prosecution which had requested a one-year suspended prison sentence at the end of this unprecedented trial of a serving Minister of Justice. The court considered in its reasons that “the material element” of the illegal taking of interests was well constituted, but not “the intentional element”. “There is no evidence to suggest that [Eric Dupond-Moretti] ignored the conflict of interest situation which had not been brought to his attention”, explained the president of the CJR.
“It’s the victory of the law”, for Eric Dupond-Moretti’s lawyer. “And also, in a sense, the victory of the separation of powers”declared Jacqueline Laffont after the announcement of the acquittal of the Minister of Justice.
La France insoumise demands the suppression of the CJR. “While the trial relentlessly demonstrated his guilt, a majority of parliamentary judges chose to acquit him”, deplores the party. LFI believes that it “it’s time to eliminate this systematically biased self-jurisdiction”. For the party founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “the maintenance of the Minister of Justice shows that the illegal taking of interests is a macronic mode of government”.