The Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti took up, this Wednesday, the defense of the Advocate General who requested at the appeal trial of the police attack in Viry-Châtillon in 2016. He has been, since Sunday, implicated by some on the right and on the extreme right after the words of one of the defense lawyers, Me Thibault de Montbrial. In an interview with

Figaro

, he assured that "one of the two advocates general concluded his requisitions by declaring for the accused that they had according to him" empathy ", and that they constituted his eyes "a wealth for the country" ".

False, retorted the Minister of Justice on RTL after having received part of the indictment.

"This is what he said to the accused: 'Take responsibility for one's actions and become a man. To do so, it will be a matter of breaking the law of silence, […] by dialoguing, by exchanging, by speaking, not in order to propagate rumors or only talk among yourselves, but […] with all the citizens from different horizons who make up the wealth of our country, of which you are, no offense, also the children ”.

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Six convictions, eight acquittals

After six weeks of closed-door trials, five young people were sentenced on appeal on the night of Saturday to Sunday to sentences ranging from six years to eighteen years of criminal imprisonment for having attacked and burned police officers in Viry- Châtillon, in Essonne, in 2016. The Paris Assize Court for minors pronounced eight acquittals.

"A prosecutor can not tell criminals who wanted to burn the police alive that they are" a chance for France ", tweeted Tuesday the ex-LR president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, potential candidate of the right in the presidential election of 2022. "The Advocate General who is directly under the orders of the Minister of Justice, Mr. Dupond-Moretti, began his indictment by telling these young people" you are a wealth for society "", said the president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen, Tuesday on RTL, adding: "I question the instructions given by Mr. Dupond-Moretti".

The minister replied on Wednesday: "It is not possible to give individual directives to magistrates, and Marine Le Pen should know it".

"I wish her to resume law studies, see in 2022 I think she will have time," blasted the former lawyer.

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