ATAt the start of his career as a lawyer, Eric Dupond added his mother’s Italian name, Elena Moretti, to his French surname. Way to greet this woman to whom he will pay homage during the handover of power to the Ministry of Justice, July 7, 2020. Way also, with this compound name, to stand out in the courtrooms of other Dupond and Dupont of the trade. In this regard, by rereading the archives of World, the newspaper seemed as if struck with “Tintinite”, hesitating according to the articles between Dupond-Moretti and Dupont-Moretti.
But, apart from this floating ending, the lawyer, who became Minister of Justice and now a candidate on the LRM list for regional in Hauts-de-France, quickly established himself. He wasted no time in making a name for himself and a reputation among the house’s court chroniclers.
Resounding trials
On April 20, 1989, the very day of his 28th birthday, when he had only been wearing the robe for five years, having just emerged from the obscurity of labor court cases and ex officio commissions, he appears for the first time in an article by Maurice Peyrot. A story of robbery perpetrated in the perception of Condé-sur-l’Escaut in 1979 by libertarian activists and judged late at the Assizes du Nord. A criminal trial that the defender will – already – take care of getting out of the banality and will – already – destabilize by hearing incidents.
On the benches of the public are indeed police officers of the General Intelligence (RG). A real “professional misconduct” that this too visible and clumsy presence. It gives the lawyer a pretext to transform a common law story into a political trial. “The defenders had just scored a point, because the jurors of the North now know that a ten-year-old case, followed closely by the RG, is not a trial quite like the others”, concludes the author. The popular jury will render a decision of amnesty (based on a law passed just after May 1981) or an outright acquittal against the accused.
Another blow in November 1990, at the trial of a police officer accused of having shot Patrick Crombet, a 19-year-old car thief who became quadriplegic. Nathaniel Herzberg reports on the debates where Eric Dupond-Moretti this time represents the civil party. The invalid is present in the room on a rolling bed, with a breathing apparatus whose beep punctuates the exchanges. Me Dupond-Moretti wants him to testify. The president of the tribunal refuses what he considers a ” show [qui] does not have to be “.
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