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The anti-corruption association lost this Friday, June 23, its possibility of filing a complaint. Its president, Elise Van Beneden “raises the question of the incompetence or the malevolence of the services of the Prime Minister” who had formulated the request for renewal of this approval.
Elise Van Beneden smiles sadly as she greets those who came to listen to her statements as president of Anticor, a few hours after the association lost its anti-corruption judicial approval. Five minutes before speaking in front of an audience of journalists and two handfuls of supporters, the lawyer draws one last time on her cigarette before resolving to join the room. “For ten years, political affairs have been buried”, she says. Elise Van Beneden recalls the story of this “citizen weapon against corruption” what is the approval created in 2013 and held since by only three associations, now two, in France.
Obtained by Anticor in 2015, 2018 and 2021 after tough negotiations with Jean Castex, Prime Minister at the time, it enabled the association to carry out more than a hundred procedures aimed at politicians and powerful people, the majority of which are still in progress. An action that “disturbs the power without a doubt, she denounces today. But it is up to the power to be exemplary, not up to an association to lose the tool of its fight. Today, justice has capitulated to corruption. But we will not be silenced.” If Elise Van Beneden says she is disappointed, she knows she can count on the volunteers who make the network