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Me Dupont-Moretti requests the full reinstatement of Robby Judes. Here, when he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on February 20, 2019. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP

Robby Judes wants to regain his position as ambassador. The former representative of France in Vanuatu was fired in March after two women filed a lawsuit against him in New Caledonia for sexual assault. Complaints filed without further action on July 9th. His lawyer is now calling on the President of the Republic for Robby Judes to return to his position.

The chopper had fallen a few days after the filing of the complaints: convened in Paris at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, heard by his hierarchy, Robby Judes was dismissed from his post as Ambassador of France in Vanuatu.

Four months later, and after the Noumea prosecutor's office dismissed the case, Eric Dupond-Moretti, the former ambassador's lawyer, attacked the Quai d'Orsay, guilty in his view of not having not respected the presumption of innocence of his client. He sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron to ask him to intervene.

"I warn the President of the Republic and inform him of the ubiquitous situation in which we find ourselves. Here is a man who is fired from his post on the sole ground that the prosecutor's office has dismissed. That is to say, the investigation was allowed to take its course and conclusions were drawn: no prosecution, no criminal offense constituted and despite that it is fired. We have thrown his honor to the dogs. "

Eric Dupond-Moretti calls for the full reinstatement of Robby Judes. This tenor of the bar would have even preferred that the justice goes further to know the truth about the accusations of sexual assault .

" I would prefer to be indicted today. It would allow me to call the witnesses who were there, it would allow me to assert the rights of the defense. This is not nothing the rights of the defense. At least one point on which the prosecution and the defense agree.

The two complainants launched a petition on the internet to denounce the dismissal of their complaints. Questioned by RFI, the Élysée did not wish to pronounce on this file.

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