Paris (AFP)
The deputy LR Eric Ciotti wants to table a "bill to remove the PNF", after the latest revelations in files concerning Nicolas Sarkozy or François Fillon and the statements of the former head of the National Financial Prosecutor's office, he said. announced in an interview with the Journal du Dimanche.
"This prosecution, which wanted to be exceptional, has become an exceptional jurisdiction," declared the deputy in this interview, regretting that justice is "today affected by the poison of the suspicion of politicization".
"What François Fillon and Nicolas Sarkozy have suffered is not in line with my idea of fair justice, completely independent of pressure and the political context. This is why I will table a bill tomorrow to remove the PNF, "adds Ciotti.
Heard on June 10 by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the independence of the justice system, Éliane Houlette - the ex-chief of the PNF who retired at the end of June 2019 - was moved by the "very close control" that would have exercised the public prosecutor's office, its direct supervisory authority, in the conduct of investigations in the Fillon case.
"The PNF's choices against Nicolas Sarkozy or François Fillon contributed to eliminating them from the race for the 2017 presidential election," said Eric Ciotti.
The PNF was also accused of indulgence after an investigation for conflict of interest targeting the secretary general of the Elysée Alexis Kohler was closed without action in August 2019, in particular after a letter from President Emmanuel Macron who cleared his collaborator . The mail was recently revealed by the Anticor association.
The third case concerns the former President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy. In February 2014, the PNF asked to scan the telephone bills of ten tenor of the bar to find the "mole" who could have informed Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that they were tapped in another case.
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