Dupond-Moretti: a Minister of Justice should not say that…

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CHRONIC. Éric Dupond-Moretti denounced the positions of Sandrine Rousseau who, according to him, sets herself up as a “judicial authority”.

By Christine Clerc

DFor a few days he had been feeling particularly nervous. Éric Dupond-Moretti knew that he would be summoned, Monday, October 3, before the Investigating Commission of the Court of Justice of the Republic. But he did not yet know that two formidable investigators from the WorldGérard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme, authors ofA president shouldn’t say that (the book which prevented François Hollande from representing himself at the Élysée) were going to publish this Saturday in the great evening daily the story of a “masterful hatred”. It calls into question the former lawyer, who treated the magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office as “crazy with the methods of spooks”, and the current minister, accused of “conflicts of interest” for having wanted to sanction them. A blow for Dupond-Moretti, who dreamed of a…