The National Financial Prosecutor's Office has "never come out of the nails" in the preliminary investigation it conducted to try to identify the possible "mole" who could have informed Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that they were eavesdropping, said Tuesday its chief, Jean-François Bohnert on RTL. In February 2014, the PNF asked to parse the detailed telephone bills ("fadettes") of ten tenors of the bar and magistrates in order to find the "mole" who could have informed Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that 'They were tapped in a corruption case. It took almost six years for this procedure, without result, to be classified without continuation at the end of 2019.
Le Point's revelation of the extent of these wiretapping sparked a stir among lawyers, prompting the Minister of Justice to request a report from the Attorney General of Paris, the supervisory authority of the PNF which was led by Eliane Crook at the time this investigation was opened. "From the moment the magistrates as well as the police (...) respected the terms of the code of criminal procedure, there is nothing to say", assured Jean-François Bohnert, who succeeded Eliane Houlette in October 2019.
" Turn on the light "
"The PNF exploited these fadettes simply because he was looking for a leak that had occurred in another procedure and the objective was (…) in proportionality to work" to "make the light, "he said. During questions to the government on Tuesday, the Keeper of the Buckets Nicolas Belloubet said that he was awaiting the attorney general's report "imminently". The lawyers of Nicolas Sarkozy and Thierry Herzog announced to have given Monday afternoon to the minister "a list of precise questions on the serious dysfunctions which enamelled this investigation".
"It goes without saying that failing to answer these questions", listed in an undisclosed six-page document, "the expected report would be meaningless and far-reaching," warn Mes Paul-Albert Iweins, Hervé Temime and Jacqueline Laffont in a joint press release. In this case, the President of Paris Me Olivier Cousi castigated an "extraordinary and worrying" investigation and announced a forthcoming legal action.
Eric Dupond-Moretti, one of the lawyers concerned by this procedure, for his part indicated having deposited Tuesday a complaint for “violation of the intimacy of the private life and the secrecy of the correspondences” and “abuse of authority”, confirming information from the Parisian.
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