After the Richard Ferrand file (finally prescribed), a second case concerning a relative of Emmanuel Macron, is out of place in Lille.

The Court of Cassation decided on Wednesday to entrust a Lille investigating judge with the complaint filed in Paris, accusing the investigators of the capital of bias in their treatment of the Laurent Bigorgne case.

The former all-powerful director of the Montaigne Institute Laurent Bigorgne was sentenced in early December in Paris to a suspended twelve-month prison sentence for having drugged his ex-collaborator and sister-in-law, Laure Conrad, without his knowledge. one evening in February.

The criminal court accepted the sexual intention.

The case will be judged on appeal: Laurent Bigorgne announced through his lawyer, Sébastien Schapira that he would "immediately" challenge this "incoherent decision".

“An edited summary report”

Following her initial complaint, Laure Conrad had, for her part, criticized an incomplete investigation and "underqualified" facts, regretting that the "sexual motive was not recognized" by the Paris prosecutor's office.

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had in particular affirmed that the investigators had not registered Laurent Bigorgne in certain files and that the police “complained that their summary report had been retouched”.

His lawyer Arié Alimi had therefore filed a complaint with civil action for “obstruction of the manifestation of the truth and falsehood and use of forgery”.

The Paris prosecutor's office had taken requisitions for the purpose of not informing.

It is this complaint, which specifically calls into question a magistrate from the Paris public prosecutor's office and an official of the Parisian PJ, which was transmitted on Wednesday to an investigating judge in Lille "in the interest of good administration. of Justice ".

"Requirement for the proper administration of justice"

The first prosecutor of France, François Molins, had indicated, in his decision to refer to the criminal chamber of the Court of Cassation, that nothing "precise" allowed "to presume a real subjective bias on the part of magistrates or investigators" Parisians.

But he considered that "the requirement of good administration of justice requires that an investigating magistrate not have to hear people with whom he works regularly".

"The offenses committed by the Paris prosecutor's office to protect Mr. Bigorgne and the executive could not be the subject of information in Paris", welcomed Me Alimi.

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