Narcotrafic: Éric Dupond-Moretti heard by the commission of inquiry this Tuesday

Éric Dupond-Moretti will be heard this Tuesday afternoon from 4:30 p.m. in the Senate by the commission of inquiry into the impact of drug trafficking in France. A hearing which arrives a few weeks after refocusing Marseille magistrates whose comments to parliamentarians on the fight against drug trafficking had displeased him. The Minister of Justice was particularly furious that the investigating judge of the court’s crime department, Isabelle Couderc, declared before the Commission that she feared “that we are losing the war against traffickers in Marseille”.

This afternoon, he will answer, under oath, for the results of the fight against drug trafficking and possibly for his outburst of anger in Marseille in the face of stunned magistrates. Étienne Blanc, senator LR, rapporteur of the Commission, reminded the minister at the end of March of his obligations during questions to the government. “This is called witness tampering, because the Commission is still investigating. The Senate will do its job to warn the French of this drug trafficking phenomenon which is beyond your control and beyond the government. Does that displease you? are there to answer me. Like you, I will be there to respond to the commission of inquiry,” he thundered.

Dupond-Moretti sticks to his positions

The Minister of Justice sticks to his positions, accepts his reproaches to the magistrates and denounces the defeatist speeches. “You indicated that I would have violated the separation of powers. I take nothing back. Yes, I said that when we expressed the idea that a war was lost, we lost it,” he said. -he throws.

The Minister of Justice, who did not fail to recall the record increase of more than 60% in the ministry’s budget since 2017, still considered insufficient by the magistrates.