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CHRONIC. The arm of honor incident in the Assembly only confirms the fall, which began in July 2020, of the former star lawyer who became a minister.
By Christine Clerc
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Un bull. A wounded and angry bull. This is how the passionate bullfighting lover, Éric Dupond-Moretti, once the lawyer called “king of acquittal”, today Minister of Justice humiliated by himself, reprimanded by Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and mocked by the entire political class and the press, suddenly saw himself in his mirror, even before looking at the images of the session this Tuesday, March 7 at the National Assembly.
We see him there, at 5.50 p.m., rising, suddenly furious, from the government bench to give the arm of honor to the leader of the parliamentary group Les Républicains, Olivier Marleix. “No, not one, but two! “he will affirm himself when the vice-president of the Assembly, Claudine Jacquier-Laforge (MoDem), will ask him, before suspending the session…