For Brice Hortefeux, a former Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the withdrawal of the candidate François Fillon at the presidential election in 2017 because of his legal troubles was “fully retracted” the presidential debate, and the outcome of the election is ” without a doubt, skewed. If it is proven, it is sad, serious and unacceptable “, he explains in an interview with the Journal du dimanche published Sunday, June 21.
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Brice Hortefeux reacts to the recent remarks of the former head of the parquet national financier (PNF) Éliane Houlette, who said at a hearing on 10 June before the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the independence of the judiciary have been subjected to “pressure” from his superiors in the investigation of François Fillon. A few days later, she was keen to clarify his comments, indicating that the pressures in question were only procedural.
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For the former minister, ” it is amazing. I don’t know what are the reasons that have pushed Ms. Crook, before retracting the last few hours, revealing that she denied a year earlier “. He demands that ” all light be shed on what many suspected “, relating the “acceleration as quick as it is unexpected” justice against François Fillon. Brice Hortefeux praised the independence of the vast majority of magistrates, but remember not to have forgotten the ” wall of idiots “… However, it does not call to break the link between the ministry of Justice and the prosecutor’s office.
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But one thing is clear to one who has also been minister of Immigration, Integration and national Identity, the Floor national financial appears to be a problem. In addition to the case of Fillon, he suggests in The Sunday Newspaper that, according to him, the PNF was, ” in fact, built to attempt to destroy Nicolas Sarkozy “. The former head of the State has been targeted by several investigations on the part of the PNF, including for suspected illegal financing of the libyan campaign of 2007, or in the case of ” eavesdropping “, for information on the Bettencourt affair.
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