Invited on the set of Laurent Ruquier Saturday June 6 to present his show Eric Dupond-Moretti at the helm, the lawyer was questioned on several subjects related to Covid-19. He took the opportunity to tell a funny anecdote about one of his meetings with Jean-Luc Mélenchon while he was defending the police. "There was something really extraordinary. When Mélenchon learned that I was in the file, he said I did not know him. However, I saw that he was in a photo with Brigitte Macron. In fact, it was was a group photo. " Laurent Ruquier then displays the photograph on which Eric Dupond-Moretti poses with Brigitte Macron, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the director Philippe Lelouche. "The photo distributed by Mélenchon's comrades, it is cut and I am very close to Brigitte Macron. We are presented almost as a couple. He says this is proof that Eric Dupont-Moretti defends the police, it is used by the First Lady. Something crazy. This is where I offered him a cup of chamomile, " added the lawyer. And to continue: "I told Jean-Luc Mélenchon you have no memory, we have a photo together. But he said that he did not know me. He was in bad faith in this story."
Eric Dupont Moretti's opinion on crisis management
During his passing noticed in We're not in bed, the Franco-Italian criminal lawyer, also returned to the management of justice during the health crisis. He was particularly indignant at the abuses of the judicial system. "It is a very very special period. I think we did anything", he explained. And to continue: "Faced with the emergency, the chancellery decided, but without consultation with the professionals, in any case with the lawyers, that one could maintain a detention without a man being presented to judges. Since 1793, the so-called law suspects, we had never seen that ", protested the lawyer. Very annoyed, he returned to a convincing example that occurred in Marseille. An accused, who was unable to appear in court due to the coronavirus pandemic, was sentenced to three years in prison without a lawyer and without being brought before a judge.
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