In his editorial for this Thursday, April 7, Jérôme Béglé, managing director of the Journal du Dimanche, talks about the opening, in the middle of the election period, of a preliminary investigation by the national financial prosecutor’s office into the McKinsey affair.
Four days before the first round of the presidential election, the national financial prosecutor’s office has just opened a preliminary investigation for aggravated laundering of tax evasion against the consulting firm McKinsey. A procedure which is largely exploited by all the actors of the poll which is announced.
Five years after the Fillon affair, which started in January 2017 with a questioning of Pénélope Fillon, wife of the Republican candidate, justice is once again involved in an election. A good thing for democracy? An abuse of power capable of influencing the choice of the French? A breach of the principle of the separation of powers?