the justice rejects a new request for cancellation of its indictment

The Minister of Justice remains indicted. The magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) rejected, on Tuesday June 14, a request from Eric Dupond-Moretti to cancel the procedure for illegal taking of interests targeting him, France Télévisions learned from his lawyer. , confirming information from BFMTV. “This is an unfortunately expected decision, which is in line with the ‘jurisprudence’ adopted by the investigating committee in this case, deplores Christophe Ingrain. We will challenge it before the Court of Cassation.

Indicted since July 2021, Eric Dupond-Moretti had already tried, in November, to have these prosecutions canceled, in vain. On May 9, the Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, François Molins, who represents the public ministry before the CJR, requested a trial for the minister, judging that there were “sufficient charges” against him.

The Minister of Justice is suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle accounts 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 who had had his detailed telephone bills (“fadettes”) go through when he was still a star at the bar.

In the second, he is accused of having initiated administrative proceedings against a former investigating judge seconded to Monaco, Edouard Levrault, who had indicted one of his ex-clients.

Eric Dupond-Moretti disputes the facts, claiming to have only done “follow the recommendations of his administration”. Summoned in March and April to be re-examined by the magistrates of the CJR, he had refused to answer their questions.