Didier Lallement, the Paris police prefect, in Paris, March 18, 2020. -

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The investigation opened against the Paris police chief and four senior magistrates for "false testimony" was dismissed by the Nanterre prosecutor's office, we learned on Thursday.

In addition to Didier Lallement, the president of the Paris Court of Appeal Jean-Michel Hayat, the Paris prosecutor general Catherine Champrenault, the Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz as well as the former prosecutor of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) Eliane Houlette were targeted. by complaints for "false testimony" and "perjury" filed by the deputy of rebellious France Ugo Bernalicis, chairman of the commission of inquiry on the independence of the judiciary.

Paris police chief Didier Lallement was accused of not having told the truth when he said he had not "found the organizers" of unauthorized police demonstrations in June.

The documents produced to justice do not allow to conclude such an imbalance in the investigations.

The Nanterre public prosecutor's office decided "to classify the proceedings in question for lack of infringement" because it emerges that "neither the material element, nor the intentional element of this offense are characterized".

Internal note on yellow vests

The deputy from the North, who had first seized the public prosecutor of Paris, Rémy Heitz, pointed directly to the prosecutor, mentioning an internal note on the fate of the “yellow vests” arrested.

Rémy Heitz had assured, for his part, not to have "signed any document giving instructions to [his] colleagues".

Asked on this subject within the framework of a commission on the maintenance of order at the end of November, Rémy Heitz had affirmed that the document mentioned "was not a note from the prosecutor but a practical document sent to the magistrates on duty".

Concerning Catherine Champrenault, attorney general of Paris, and Eliane Houlette, former prosecutor of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), Ugo Bernalicis put forward “discordant statements” on interventions in the context of the Fillon affair.

The president of the Paris court of appeal and former president of the Paris court, Jean-Michel Hayat, was also suspected of "perjury" on the reasons for the appointment of Judge Tournaire in the same Fillon file.

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