Will the National Financial Prosecutor's Office survive in its current form the heated controversies which shake it? A new charge against the institution has just been launched by the deputy LR Eric Ciotti. In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche , he declared that he wanted to table a "law proposal to abolish the PNF" on Monday.
"An exceptional jurisdiction"
"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 suspicion of politicization". It must be said that the latest revelations in files concerning Nicolas Sarkozy or François Fillon and the declarations of the ex-chief of the PNF leaves cast doubt on the independence of Justice. "What François Fillon and Nicolas Sarkozy suffered is not in line with my idea of fair justice, completely independent of pressure and the political context," regrets Eric Ciotti.
Heard on June 10 by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the independence of justice, 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 was also charged with indulgence after an investigation into a conflict of interest targeting the secretary general of the Elysée Alexis Kohler was closed without action in August 2019.
Finally, the third case concerns Nicolas Sarkozy. In February 2014, the PNF asked to scan the telephone bills of ten tenors of the bar to find the "mole" who could have informed the former president and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that they were tapped in another case.
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