Outcry at the Assembly! The Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti was accused by Patrick Hetzel, deputy of Bas-Rhin, of having given the arm of honor to the president of the LR group, Olivier Marleix, who had just reminded the tribune of his implementation. examination for unlawful taking of interests. Acknowledging having made two arms of honor, Éric Dupond-Moretti assured that the gesture was "not addressed to the deputy Marleix", but to the attack on "the presumption of innocence". The session was temporarily suspended.
The Keeper of the Seals is accused of having taken advantage of his position, once at the head of the Ministry of Justice, to settle scores with magistrates with whom he had had trouble when he was a lawyer, which he dispute. The Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) ordered a trial against the minister, but his lawyers filed an appeal in cassation.
.@E_DupondM is accused by LR deputies of having given two arms of honor to LR deputy Olivier Marleix after the latter recalled the indictment of the Minister of Justice. The session was suspended.
With these arms of honor, "you have lent yourself to unworthy behavior", accused LR deputy Patrick Hetzel on Tuesday, in a first point of order. "I reacted with great vivacity, I want to say that around the gestures that I am accused of there were words that targeted the contempt he [Olivier Marleix] had for my presumption of innocence," replied The Minister.
“I think of teachers dealing with difficult students. Which model ! Launched Olivier Marleix, after a suspension of the session which did little to calm the spirits.
"I apologize to him and to all the national representation", finally declared the minister, pressed by the right and the left to make amends.
In the evening, the boss of the LR deputies sent a letter to the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet. "It seems important to us to establish full transparency around these gestures, which are an insult to national representation, and totally unacceptable in our Assembly. If they had been committed by a deputy, there is no doubt that these actions would have resulted in a heavy sanction. We would therefore like to have access to the images of this moment recorded by the Assembly's cameras. It seems important to us to establish,” he asks, in a missive published by LCP.
