The year starts off on a high for Éric Dupond-Moretti. At the end of the solemn hearing of the re-entry of the Court of Cassation, Monday, January 10, the Minister of Justice got into trouble with the magistrate, François Molins.
Between Éric Dupond-Moretti and the judicial sphere, nothing is going well. Monday morning, at the end of the formal re-entry hearing of the Court of Cassation, the Minister of Justice had a heated exchange with Attorney General François Molins, who spoke to denounce the “untenable working conditions “ personnel serving justice. A speech judged “scandalous” by the Keeper of the Seals, who let himself be carried away by his anger.
A few weeks later the signing of a platform by more than 7,000 magistrates and clerks to denounce their working conditions, the formal re-entry hearing of the Court of Cassation was an opportunity to return to the subject for François Molins. Facing Éric Dupond-Moretti and Jean Castex, the magistrate, if he underlined the first efforts of the government, he deemed them insufficient. “These efforts, and in particular those granted over the past year through the recruitment of a thousand contract workers, besides that they remain insufficient, aren’t they actually the expression of a certain lack of confidence of the State in its justice? “, he then asked himself before continuing: “If this trust existed, it is indeed the creation of lasting jobs for magistrates and clerks that would have taken place. “
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The entourage of Eric Dupond-Moretti evokes a “frank exchange”
A speech that ended with a tense exchange with Éric Dupond-Moretti, who did not hesitate, expressed his anger to “his collaborators”, as detailed The world: “The Minister of Justice then spoke with the Prime Minister when leaving the Cour de cassation, repeating the term ‘scandalous‘. ” Contacted by AFP in the wake, the minister’s entourage reported a “frank exchange “ by asserting that “the part of the speech concerning the hiring in the ministry was truncated and false“. The prosecutor famous to the population by his speeches after the attacks, did not seem to increase afterwards.
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