They even considered taking the seal press history which sits in the office of Eric Dupond-Moretti. Before realizing that it would be necessary, for this, to call on the services of historical monuments … The magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) left, Thursday evening around midnight, the Ministry of Justice after a search of nearly fifteen hours.
The time to search the minister’s office, that of his chief of staff, his private secretary and the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons (DACG). And also to call on the services of locksmiths to open, using a grinder, several old empty safes located in the library and for which no one could find the keys …
In the end, according to our information, the investigators left after seizing several documents and cell phones, including one belonging to the minister himself. Something to surprise Christophe Ingrain, one of Eric Dupond-Moretti’s lawyers. “I understand all the less this search that we had transmitted, last January, all the documents […] about these two files… ”, he blurted out Place Vendôme while investigators accompanied by around twenty armed gendarmes were still searching the premises behind him.
#DupondMoretti : The minister’s entourage also argues that this search takes place almost a year after the facts before the CJR. “This late character does not fail to surprise”, indicates one of his relatives.
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When his past as a lawyer catches up with Dupond-Moretti
The “two files” evoked by Christophe Ingrain are those which poison the life of Eric Dupond-Moretti since his arrival at the head of this ministry. The first concerns the magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) who investigated the case of “the tapping of Paul Bismuth”. The second concerns Judge Édouard Levrault.
As many individuals that the former tenor of the bars did not carry in his heart … Except that he has since become Keeper of the Seals. And that the magistrates’ unions, just like the Anticor association, wonder if he does not use his new functions as minister to settle his old accounts as a lawyer. And point in particular to the administrative investigations that he ordered first against Édouard Levrault, then against the magistrates of the PNF, in the summer of 2020.
“It was not he who was at the initiative [de ses enquêtes]retorts his entourage. He only followed the recommendations of his services made up of… magistrates. “And to be sure that the message gets through, Eric Dupond-Moretti makes it clear that he is” calm about the procedure “.
Investigators take an interest in the director of judicial services
Because since the filing of complaints from the unions and Anticor, suspicions have led the Court of Justice of the Republic to open a judicial investigation. If the initiative dates from January, this procedure seems to be accelerating for a few weeks. In addition to the search carried out on Thursday, the magistrates of the CJR indeed interviewed Prime Minister Jean Castex on June 7.
According to our information, they are also interested in the personality of Paul Huber, the current director of the judicial services of the ministry, with whom Eric Dupond-Moretti has exchanged several times on the subject of administrative investigations. According to several corroborating sources, he too was heard by the magistrates of the Court of Justice of the Republic.
Next on the list could be Eric Dupond-Moretti. Except that the Keeper of the Seals risks an indictment for “illegal taking of interests”. Likely to disrupt the end of Emmanuel Macron’s mandate.