VIDEO – Various media have revealed the video of the Minister of Justice who, in the middle of a session in the hemicycle, makes these gestures towards the president of the LR group, Olivier Marleix.
He had matched the action to the word. The Assembly therefore attached the images to the confession. A short video simultaneously revealed this Thursday by France Info, Paris Match and LCI confirms the triple arm of honor that the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, admitted to having addressed to the boss of the LR deputies, Olivier Marleix, in the middle of a debate in the Hemicycle. While reproaching him, according to the minutes of the meeting, of trampling on the “presumption of innocence“. The president of the group Les Républicains, who himself viewed the images, nevertheless indicated to the Figaro to want “to raise the subject at the conference of presidents so that a follow-up is given to this affair, a fortiori re the attitude of a Keeper of the Seals who had signed a circular on September 7, 2020 against insults addressed to elected officials, including parliamentarians.
If no sanction is currently envisaged against Éric Dupond-Moretti – who is not himself a parliamentarian -, the leader of the right intends to write to the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, in order to “ask him what follow-up the executive intends to reserve for this unacceptable behavior”. Driven to recognize hiswrongs“, then to express “regret» and to present «excuses“, the tenant of the Chancellery has for the moment been the subject of a simple reframing of the head of government, who reminded him that this type of behavior “has no place in the hemicycle“.
Not enough, in the eyes of Olivier Marleix, who is waiting for a concrete answer. “Things cannot stop there. Clearly, it wasn’t to the presumption of innocence that he was making these arms of honour. I saw it in his eyes“, he says. The Prime Minister also spoke with Éric Dupond-Moretti on Tuesday evening, letting him know “that this behavior had no place in the Hemicycle”.
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