The green criticisms of the Monegasque justice carried by the ex-investigation evidence of the Principality do not require a sanction, affirms the representative of the Prime Minister after two years of procedures against him.
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The disciplinary hearing of Edouard Levrault, ex-instruction judge detached in Monaco, to which the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM) devoted a long day, Wednesday August 31, gave birth to a mouse. The director of judicial services, Paul Huber, in the role of the prosecutor in this procedure, certainly asked to note that the disciplinary faults which had been denounced in September 2021 by Prime Minister Jean Castex are established, but he immediately specified that They deserved no sanction.
The affair seemed to be the highest gravity, given the sequence that led to this audience: a complaint against Edouard Levrault filed with big noises in June 2020 with the Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, by Eric Dupond -Moretti as a lawyer for the former Monegasque judicial police; An administrative investigation into this magistrate ordered at the General Inspectorate of Justice by the lawyer who became minister less than a month after his appointment, on July 6, place Vendôme; A offset decree signed on October 23, 2020 to avoid situations of conflict of interest by entrusting the Prime Minister with the management of files that Mr. Dupond-Moretti had to know in his life as a lawyer; an indictment of the Minister for “illegal taking of interest”, in particular to have intervened in the Levrault procedure; The referral of the CSM, finally, by Prime Minister Jean Castex, on September 15, 2021, of a disciplinary procedure against this magistrate for ethical breaches of the duties of reserve and delicacy and his obligation of prudence because of the remarks made in the Press on the conditions of his brutal eviction of his functions on the rock.
Céline Parisot, president of the union union of magistrates, working on Wednesday in support of Edouard Levrault, today vice-president in the Nice court, had a good game of exclaiming “all that for that” in Reaction to the indictment pronounced by Mr. Huber in the name of the Prime Minister.
Limits of freedom of expression
The heart of the subject concerns the limits to the freedom of expression of a magistrate. Edouard Levrault is criticized for “controversial” remarks and “outrageous expressions” in an article in the Obs of October 24, 2019, a program of France 3 of June 10, 2020 and another from France 2 of January 7, 2021. These interventions public “infringed the image and credit of French justice,” says Huber.
“I realized that in Monaco justice should be an institution that arranges, and not that disturbs,” said the judge convinced that the non-renewal of his decided detachment in extremis in June 2019 by the ‘Monegasque executive was linked to the investigations he was conducting in the case concerning Dmitri Rybolovlev, owner of the principal football club and close to Prince Albert.
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