MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Justice of France, Éric Dupond-Moretti, has refused this Tuesday to present his resignation after being accused of influence peddling, charges that have also been imposed against the Secretary General of the French Presidency, Alexis Kohler, considered the “hand right” of French President Emmanuel Macron.
The so-called ‘Guardian of the Seals’, a title by which the Minister of Justice is known in France, has been accused of using his position to take action against magistrates with whom he had differences when he was a lawyer.
However, Dupond-Moretti has assured that his resignation “is not on the agenda” despite the fact that a court threatens to put him in the dock. “The prime minister yesterday reaffirmed the trust placed in me,” she said in relation to the words of the prime minister, Élisabeth Borne.
The Court of Justice of the Republic, a special court in charge of judging ministers and senior government officials for crimes or misconduct carried out during their mandate, has ordered that he be tried, which would make him the first justice minister to be held accountable. before said court.
His lawyers, Christophe Ingrain and Rémi Lorrain, have assured that they have filed an appeal “immediately”, according to information from the newspaper ‘Le Figaro’.
His case is added to that of Kohler, who has also been charged with influence peddling. In 2010 and 2011, the secretary general of the Elysée Palace approved the contracts of the Italian-Swiss shipowner MSC, founded and directed by cousins ??of his mother. Kohler was then a member of the supervisory board and had not disclosed these family relationships with MSC.
