A little more than twenty parliamentarians, mostly right and center, including the new president of the party Republicans Christian Jacob, plead for Carlos Ghosn, the former boss of Renault-Nissan defeated, to be repatriated and tried in France , in a forum published Sunday. "We ask the French state to do everything possible so that Carlos Ghosn is repatriated to France to be judged in the framework of a fair trial," write these parliamentarians in a forum published in Le Journal du dimanche.
Among the signatories are Christian Jacob, MP for Seine-et-Marne and President of LR, Gérard Longuet, Senator of the Meuse, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, MP for Seine-Saint-Denis and President of the UDI, and Bruno Retailleau , Senator of Vendée. There is also Anne Genetet, LREM deputy of the French established outside France and only representative of the presidential party. "Carlos Ghosn is neither above the law nor guilty of exceptional justice, but he has a right to justice, and since the beginning of the case, the international treaties on the rights of the Man that Japan, a G7 member country has ratified, have been repeatedly violated, "say the signatories.
'Judicial stubbornness', say parliamentarians
They denounce "the length and brutality" of the detention Carlos Ghosn, coupled with a "clear judicial harassment in a country where the confession is at the heart of the criminal justice system and 99.4% of the accused are sentenced". According to them, "there is no longer any doubt that what is at stake is above all the episode of an economic war, which aims, by all means, to get rid of the French tutelage on Nissan. The roadmap of Carlos Ghosn before his withdrawal from the business was known since the beginning of 2018: it was to proceed to further integration between the manufacturers, which the Japanese did not want. "The way in which this refusal became incarnated has everything to do with a Gribouille strategy since, in the end, there will have been in this case only the vanquished, as evidenced by the fall in the results and the loss. value of the two companies of several billion euros ", judge the signatories.
Carlos Ghosn was arrested on November 19, 2018 and spent some 130 days in detention in Tokyo, accused of aggravated breach of trust and misrepresentation to the authorities during his tenure at Nissan. He was then re-jailed for three weeks before being released on bail on April 25, and has since been subjected to a very severe judicial review in Japan that he can not leave.