The Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti was briefly heard on Tuesday by the magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic who indicted him in the summer of 2021 on suspicion of conflicts of interest.

A 40 minute audition

Suspected of having taken advantage of his position to settle accounts with magistrates with whom he had had trouble when he was a lawyer in two cases, the Minister of Justice arrived at the CJR at 9:00 a.m. and left forty minutes later. late, refusing to answer the press.

"Ask the questions if you want to my lawyers, they will answer you", simply declared the minister.

Present at his side, his lawyers, Me Christophe Ingrain and Rémi Lorrain, did not wish to make statements.

During a first hearing on the merits on March 3, which also lasted less than an hour, Eric Dupond-Moretti refused to answer questions from the magistrates of the CJR's investigating committee.

Reading a statement

The CJR is the only jurisdiction empowered to prosecute and try ministers for offenses committed in the exercise of their functions.

In front of these magistrates, the Keeper of the Seals had read a declaration, in which he justified his choice.

“Everything in the conduct of your information demonstrates your determination not to get to the truth on allegations that you have taken for granted from the outset, but to smear the reputation of a former lawyer whose only trial you are supporting. which interests you, that of his illegitimacy to occupy the functions of Keeper of the Seals, ”he justified.

A first audition last July

Chantal Arens, the president of the Court of Cassation, had "strongly regretted" these remarks and had then "recalled" the Keeper of the Seals to his role of "guarantor of the independence of justice".

Eric Dupond-Moretti had already been heard on July 16, 2021 for nearly six hours by the three judges of the CJR's investigating committee, who had indicted him for "illegal taking of interests", a first for a practicing Minister of Justice.

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