Put an end to the feedback of procedures under way at the Ministry of Justice. This is the wish expressed on Tuesday by the Syndicat de la magistrature (SM) in a letter addressed to Eric Dupond-Moretti, the famous lawyer who became Keeper of the Seals in the new Castex government.
"Your special position - until yesterday you were involved in a number of the most sensitive cases reported to the Chancellery - makes all the more urgent a clear commitment on your part to put an end to these practices which take effect immediately in practice by means of a circular, before being entered in the code of criminal procedure ”, writes the president of the SM (classified on the left), Katia Dubreuil.
Our first letter to the new Keeper of the Seals.
We are already talking about two imperative prerequisites there to lay the first stones of a serenity essential to the continuation of his functions and ask him to receive us quickly ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/A9HOMrmZVO
She added that such an initiative would be a "strong sign" of the Minister's desire to "advance the independence of the judiciary".
Another request: withdrawal of the mission entrusted to the IGJ
Katia Dubreuil also calls on Eric Dupond-Moretti to withdraw the mission entrusted in early July by her predecessor Nicole Belloubet to the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) in order to avoid "an obvious conflict of interest situation". This inspection concerns a controversial investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), which lasted more than six years and during which the detailed telephone invoices ("fadettes") of ten tenors of the bar, including Eric Dupond-Moretti, and magistrates were peeled.
The said investigation aimed to identify a possible "mole" who could have informed Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog that they were wiretapped in another case, which brought them a trial at the end of the year. Eric Dupond-Moretti had filed a complaint against X for "violation of the intimacy of private life and the secrecy of correspondence" and "abuse of authority" in this case, complaint withdrawn before taking office in the Chancellery.
The SM had already criticized this IGJ mission last week, considering that it "constitutes a dangerous departure from the road with regard to the principle of separation of powers".
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