They denounce a "denial of justice" in a very sensitive matter.

The daughter of Robert Boulin, minister and mayor of Libourne (Gironde) found dead in a pond in 1979, criticized Thursday in Paris with her lawyer the "burial" of the judicial information opened in 2015 to clarify the causes of this death suspect.

Marie Dosé, counsel for Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat, denounced during a press conference, the refusal, in September, by the examining magistrate of 24 acts - requests for the hearing of witnesses in particular - that she had requested as a civil party lawyer, and appealed against these refusals to the Versailles Court of Appeal.

They also assigned the State for "gross negligence" in the face of "lack of progress" in the investigation.

"We are close to the absurd"

The judge's decision "sounds the death knell of a real judicial quest for the manifestation of the truth", was indignant Me Dosé, seeing it as a "disguised dismissal order" of the judicial investigation opened in 2015 in Versailles .

"It borders on the absurd," she said, citing one of the justifications of the judge, who refused to hear a witness because it would only relate to the circumstances of the discovery of the minister's body on October 30. 1979 in a pond in the Rambouillet forest.

"This magistrate considers that anything that can shed light on the manifestation of the truth after the murder will not shed light on the murder", indignant the lawyer.

It also indicates that a new magistrate, seized in September, also refused a hearing of a witness.

"We protect assassins"

“I am ashamed for the justice of my country,” said Fabienne Boulin-Burgeat.

“They have always played the pendulum” in the face of witnesses to the facts who are now elderly or deceased.

"We protect murderers," she insists.

Officially, his father, the Minister of Labor of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 59, committed suicide after consuming barbiturates.

A first investigation opened into a complaint from the family ended with a dismissal in 1991, before another investigation was opened in 2015 for “kidnapping” and “murder”, following a complaint from Fabienne Boulin -Burgeat, convinced that it was a political assassination and that the minister was killed because he had information about hidden funding from his political family (RPR).

In civil proceedings against the State for “gross negligence”, a pre-trial hearing is scheduled for January 17, 2022, the representative of the State having requested to await the outcome of the criminal proceedings before ruling in civil matters, AFP learned from a judicial source.

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