The former magistrate at the head of the Parquet national financier, has made some sensational statements on behind the scenes of this survey sensitive. These
The former magistrate at the head of the Parquet national financier, has made some sensational statements on behind the scenes of this survey sensitive.
These are the remarks which have the effect of a small bomb. Heard on 10 June at the national Assembly by the commission of inquiry on the obstacles to judicial independence, the ex-prosecutor of the parquet national financier (PNF), Eliane Houlette was shown to be very effective on the subject. Referring to the case Fillon, pursued and then tried in march for jobs that are fictitious, supposed to be his wife, the magistrate, has denounced the “pressures” that it would have suffered on the part of the prosecutor-general’s office, particularly in terms of requests for feedback, and this, at a steady pace.
These statements on the scenes of this sensitive issue had gone unnoticed until an article in the Point a week later. Since then, the content of his testimony, pushed a part of the political class, Eric Ciotti to Marine Le Pen as well as Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The case is all the more timely as the correctional court of Paris is expected to deliver its judgment within a few days – June 29 – in the trial Fillon. And three years after the fact, a part of the electorate of the right continues to believe that the presidential election of 2017 has been stolen by the implementation review and the referral to the court of the ex-Prime minister. In 1h30 of speech, Eliane Houlette stimulus and the idea of a justice instrumentalised for political. But what is it really?
“Degree of accuracy amazing”
What strikes us in his words, it is first of all its astonishing freedom of tone. Of course, the magistrate is no longer in the position since June 2019. Now retired, his word is logically more free. But a public office also virulent is, in the judiciary, a fact quite rare. That which is in the sight of the ex-attorney national financial is none other than her superior of the time, Catherine Champrenault, attorney general at the court of appeal of Paris.
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At the heart of its critical rule: “control, very narrow” and the “substantial burden” that would have exercised the attorney general’s office, his authority of direct supervision, in the conduct of investigations. In front of the parliamentarians, this former magistrate of the first plan has, in particular, discussed “applications of rapid transmission” on the acts of investigation or hearings, requests “a degree of precision, mind-boggling.” It has also been found to have been convened by the prosecutor general’s office who argued for the opening of a judicial investigation, that is to say that the investigation be entrusted to a judge of instruction. Choice that the main interested eventually, but at his own tempo. It is then, remember, in full presidential campaign.
important clarification, however: the denunciation of Eliane Houlette does not change the substance of the investigation. It is not a question of pressure to guide the investigations, but pressure to move quickly the information on the acts of the investigation carried out ( “requests for clarification, of general history – all of it in two or three days of interval, the requests for elements on the hearings, the requests for notes of the advice of the respondent”). Which is, in reality, within a legal framework: according to the rules in force, the prosecutor general’s office may request feedback to the floors and send them to the directorate for criminal affairs and pardons (DACG). This person can then forward them to the office of the keeper of the Seals. All, theoretically, for the purpose of conducting its criminal policy.
Survey “biased from the beginning”
this is what that reminded Catherine Champrenault in a message sent to AFP, saying that “regret that this is the regular functioning of the public ministry is equated with pressure.” On the other hand, the Taubira law of 2013 prohibits the minister of Justice to give instructions in the individual folders. Practice which is defended, moreover, Eliane Houlette. For its part, the latter has “regretted” that his remarks have been “misquoted” or “misunderstood.”
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These sensational statements only strengthened the line of defence of François Fillon. His lawyer, Antonin Levy, had denounced during the three weeks of trials a survey “insane, “party in every sense”. With a preliminary investigation opened on the same day of the publication of the article in the Canard enchaîné ” revealing the facts, the January 25, 2017, then a criminal investigation a month later. A speedy timeframe that the council has repeatedly denounced.
This morning on Europe 1, he again blasted the investigation “flawed from the beginning”, “dependent”, “to the extent of the intellectual dishonesty”, made to “defeating François Fillon”. Especially, relying on the remarks of Eliane Houlette, it has down the power socialist of the time – without naming it: “It was necessary that these leaks (in press, Ed) have an origin”. Since, beyond the merits of the case and of the facts which are alleged, this is where all the debate for the politician is deposed, as to its family policy, but also its voters.
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on The 11th of march last, in front of judges, Antonin Levy had concluded his argument: “It has been said that you could only condemn, otherwise, it would mean that the presidential election had been confiscated to the French people. There is no reason to say this. You judge law, you are relaxing in François Fillon”. Response on 29 June.
Date Of Update: 21 June 2020, 07:58
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