The Minister of Justice can breathe. The Montpellier complaint, which accused Nicole Belloubet of "illegal taking of interest" by deciding to establish an administrative court of appeal in his fief of Toulouse, rather than in the prefecture of Hérault, was dismissed.
Deputy mayor of Toulouse from 2008 to 2010
According to a judicial source, this classification was decided on February 24 by the Applications Commission of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), the only court competent to prosecute a minister for acts accomplished in the exercise of his functions. The mayor of Montpellier, Philippe Saurel, had filed this complaint on behalf of the city and denounced the minister's family and political connections with Toulouse. Nicole Belloubet was in fact assistant to the socialist mayor of the city from 2008 to 2010 and vice-president of the Midi-Pyrénées regional council from 2010 to 2013.
"The commission considered that these functions are old, that Ms. Belloubet is not a candidate in the elections in Toulouse and that the elements of the complaint do not characterize the illegal taking of interest", detailed the judicial source. Friday, Philippe Saurel, elected various left and support of President Emmanuel Macron, however announced that he wished to continue to challenge this decision in court.
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"The analysis of the files very largely confirms what we suspected in terms of conflicts of interest and scheming," he said, enumerating "the use of false figures to argue a thesis chosen in advance, ( a) letter from the council of the order of architects indicating that the procedure is totally redacted, and a sum of documents used against the prosecution against Montpellier ”. At the end of January, the Council of State had however justified, for financial reasons, the choice of Toulouse rather than Montpellier, the studies which it had commissioned highlighting “the estimated costs of the works and a significantly lower completion time in Toulouse ".
Consolidate business
Administrative cases handled in Montpellier are now subject to appeal in Marseille and those from Toulouse to Bordeaux. The new administrative court of appeal should allow them to be brought together.
In October 2019, Nicole Belloubet had already had to defend herself from any partiality and refute that the reform of the judicial card was arbitrated by "partisan criteria" and electoralists, as could imply a document from the minister's office revealed by Le Canard chained .
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