Éric Dupond-Moretti will be decided on his fate on November 29. The prosecution, convinced that the Minister of Justice was guilty of illegal taking of interest by launching administrative investigations against 4 magistrates whom they had criticized when he was a lawyer, requested a year in prison against him. His defense pleaded for acquittal this Thursday, November 16, on the last day of the trial. Then, the Minister of Justice spoke one last time.
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Hearing report, Marine de La Moissonnière
“ I have nothing to add, Mr. President “. A sentence spoken in a blank voice. Then, in a theatrical manner, Éric Dupond-Moretti lowers the two microphones from the bar and returns to his place… Nothing more then that throughout the trial, the Minister of Justice continued to make loud comments voice, to speak without having been given it.
Of the ” excess “very natural for a man” wrongfully accused », justifies his defense, which denounces the “ sidereal void of the file »: Éric Dupond-Moretti has never sought revenge. “ Not an email, not a conversation, not a post-it » does not corroborate this thesis, says one of the minister’s two lawyers. On the contrary, it was the magistrates’ unions which declared to him “ the war » because they wanted his head, continues the other council.
The defense has remained on the same line since the beginning: the Minister of Justice has only followed the recommendations of his services and launched administrative investigations. legitimate in the eyes of all “.
From now on, it is up to the judges to decide. And the defense reminds us that what is at stake is a possible resignation of the minister.
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