Paris (AFP)

MEP LREM Thierry Solère said Thursday he had "not asked for information" on the investigation against the custody of the Seals Jean-Jacques Urvoas, tried for "breach of professional secrecy" before the Court of Justice of the Republic.

"I'm not looking for any information on the file that concerns me, I did not ask the minister when I talk to a doctor, I do not ask him for information on the health of a third party, otherwise I would ask him to violate medical secrecy, "said the MP from Hauts-de-Seine at the helm.

The former socialist minister (January 2016-May 2017) is tried for having transmitted on May 4 and 5, 2017 to the deputy (then LR) Thierry Solère elements of the investigation which aimed at him for tax evasion, via encrypted telegram messaging.

Mr. Urvoas does not deny the materiality of the facts, but disputes that the documents transmitted are covered by any secret.

At the bar, he claims to have wanted to "defend the judicial institution" against the attacks of the camp of the presidential candidate of 2017 François Fillon, Thierry Solère was the spokesman.

The MP does not deny his statements on a "black cabinet" and remains convinced that he would "never have been the target of an investigation by a tax administration if he had not been the organizer of the primary to the right".

But he has "no memory of complaining about his personal situation" to the minister, contrary to what the latter said by referring to a discussion at the Chancellery in April 2017.

"I did not expect to receive a document from Jean-Jacques Urvoas, I sent it to my lawyer who told me to destroy it. (...) Then I made sure I did not have any more relations with Jean-Jacques Urvoas, I did not respond to his messages of encouragement and congratulations for my election to the Assembly ", explained Thierry Solère.

Turning to the former minister, the President of the Court Jean-Baptiste Parlos cowardly: "But what took you?"

Jean-Jacques Urvoas again defends his record, he saw "ruined" by the campaign of denigration of the right, and returns to the "public action sheets" received from his administration on the basis of feedback from floors.

"This note (the file on the Solère file) was refined (filtered, ed) by the magistrates to be transmitted to the minister.If I am given a document, it is for me to use it!", Launches he exclaimed.

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