Lawyer Nathalie Tomasini denounced facts that would have occurred during a trial for female in February 2020. According to the Evreux Prosecrator, the qualification suggested by the complainant was not adapted, and the deadline for Past prescription.
Le Monde with AFP
A lawyer complained to “psychological violence” and “threats” against the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti. The parquet of Evreux has “classified without continuation” the file, we learned Wednesday with Dominique PueechMaille, the prosecutor of the Republic of Evreux, in the Eure.
In his complaint, the lawyer reproaches Mr. DuPond-Moretti from having insulted her, as well as a sister, during a trial for female before the Evreux Assize Court in 2020, before the lawyer is appointed minister. “The qualification suggested by the complainant does not seem adapted to me”, explained to a correspondent of the France-Presse agency (AFP) the prosecutor of the Republic.
“We are on a qualification of possibly sexist insults, which falls under the law of the press. We are on short prescriptions. In the present case, the deadline was largely exceeded,” said the magistrate specified . In addition, “there is no incident or act in the minutes of the trial debates on the Assize,” she added.
The parquet had confirmed on September 22 the filing of this complaint. The Minister’s entourage had denounced a “blackmail attempt” and said that Mr. Dupond-Moretti was considering a complaint for slanderous denunciation.
Asked on this point Wednesday, M me Puechmaille added that she had “not received a complaint from the custody of the seal for slanderous denunciation”. “That being, he could have filed a complaint directly in Paris. He could not file a complaint in a legally slanderous denunciation before I have classified without continuation. My mail went on last weekend,” she added.
Unleashing violence
M e Tomasini accuses Mr. DuPond-Moretti, who defended the accused, for qualifying the two lawyers of the civil parties of “Saloperies of whores”, “hysteric”, of “Hont of the bar”, and “shopkeepers of misfortune”. In this document, the magistrate Brigitte Blind, representative of the public prosecutor at trial, attests to having seen Mr. DuPond-Moretti “vociferate towards the lawyers of the civil parties while stirring towards them the fist”. One of the civil parties also evokes a “unleashing of verbal and gestures” of Mr. Dupond-Moretti.
The entourage of the minister felt that this complaint was restrained “to political instrumentalisation”. “Since November 2020, while Eric Dupond-Moretti has always denied having uttered the insults, the actions or threats of which he is subsitely accused, [the complainant] tried several times to take advantage of it to integrate, against his silence. , commissions launched by the seal guard, “we added. “It’s totally wrong,” retorted M e Tomasini with AFP.