The daughter of former minister Robert Boulin is suing the state for "gross negligence".
She denounces the lack of progress in the investigation and accuses the magistrates of "not working" in this direction according to her lawyer.
She asks for 100,000 euros in compensation for the damage.
The court did not react.
The daughter of Robert Boulin, minister found dead in a pond in the forest of Rambouillet in 1979, sued the state for "gross misconduct" before the Paris court, denouncing the lack of progress in the investigation, a- we learned Thursday from his lawyer Marie Dosé.
She accuses the two investigating magistrates of Versailles (Yvelines) of "not working" to advance the investigation.
She asks the State for 100,000 euros in compensation for the damage.
No reaction could be obtained immediately from the judicial court or the parquet floor of Versailles, requested by AFP.
"I have been waiting for justice for 42 years"
"I do not despair of justice because I am resolutely a democrat but I have been waiting for justice for 42 years, I am very patient but it is damaging our democracy not to do everything to know the truth about the death of my father, "Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat also told AFP, confirming information from
Le Monde
.
Robert Boulin's body was found on the morning of October 30, 1979, in 50 cm of water in the Rompu pond in Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines (Yvelines).
Immediately after his death, it was announced that the Minister of Labor of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 59, had committed suicide after consuming barbiturates.
The case was initially classified as a suicide before an investigation was opened following a complaint from the family in 1983. The latter ended in a dismissal in 1991.
File reopened in 2015
In 2015, the courts decided to reopen the case for "kidnapping" and "murder", following a complaint from Ms. Boulin-Burgeat. She has always maintained that it was a political assassination and not a suicide. "Five years later, more than twenty-five witnesses are still waiting to be heard, if they are able to do so or, worse, that some have not died in the meantime", regret in a statement sent to the AFP Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat and Me Dosé, specifying that "four witnesses are dead".
Deploring the "decline of evidence", they insist: "This series of deficiencies in the search for the causes of the death of Robert Boulin reflects the inability of the public service of justice to fulfill the mission with which it is invested and characterizes a serious fault of State". They ensure that no investigative act has been "fixed" for months.