ERIC DUPOND MORETTI. A criminal defense lawyer extremely media made his entry into the government of Jean Castex. Eric Dupond-Moretti is already very criticized for his positions…
Summary of How he became a lawyer in The acquittal of Outreau Large business and wholesale customers Against Jean-Luc Mélenchon Not a political party, but… The ban of the national Front in Defence of bullfighting movies and a show Critical of the justice and complaint Comments on women In couple with Isabelle Boulay
[updated at 7 July 2020 at 12h17] It is the surprise of the reshuffle : Eric Dupond-Moretti, one of the lawyers for the media of France, takes the head of the ministry of Justice following the overhaul delivered on Monday 6 July by the secretary general of the Elysee Alexis Kohler. The questions and considerations for this 59-year-old, who claims the defence of the “indefensible” and has never hesitated to express what he was thinking, his entry in the government of Jean Castex, as the keeper of the Seals. Known as much for his capacity to fulfill his clients as for his rants on the justice system, Eric Dupond-Moretti is a personality as much loved as hated.
The reactions to this appointment surprise did not make wait. Marine Le Pen immediately blasted the choice of a”militant of the extreme left, which wants the ban of the RN, the leading opposition party”. “That sounds promising…” wrote the former candidate to the presidential election on Twitter. The Union of magistrates (USM) main trade union of the profession, for his part, commented to the AFP the arrival of Eric Dupond-Moretti to Justice as “a declaration of war on the judiciary”. Several figures and feminists are also concerned about this appointment, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who has several times taken positions sharp on the fight against harassment. Here’s what you need to know about this character that could make sparks in the place Vendôme.
He became a lawyer after a family affair
Born in Maubeuge, in the North a father a laborer and mother a maid, Eric Dupond-Moretti became a lawyer following the suspicious death of her grandfather, Italian immigrant. This mysterious death, along a railway track, will be the subject of a complaint of her uncle and motivate them to make the right. For thirty years, he will serve as the questions and considerations for this at the bar of Lille, and then to that of Paris from 2016. At the time of his entry into the government, he runs one of the largest law firms in the capital.
It has allowed an acquittal in the case of Outreau
In July 2004, Eric Dupond-Moretti will be one of the lawyers the most renowned of France in obtaining the acquittal of Roselyne Godard, nicknamed “the baker”, in the case of Outreau. For the first trial of this case is very complex, before the assize court of the Pas-de-Calais, Saint-Omer, the lawyer will reverse the charge and call into question the whole matter in dédouanant this market traveling of confectionery, accused of paedophilia in 2001 and who has spent sixteen months and three days in remand before being released. France discovers the one that the media will call soon “Acquittator” or even the”Ogre of the North”.
He pleaded the case of many large business
Eric Dupond-Moretti has appeared in many other matters, which earned him also the fame of a lawyer to the word powerful, which often fly. His name is associated with large folders : Abdelkader Merah, Bernard Tapie, Jérôme Cahuzac, Karim Benzema, Jérôme Kerviel, the case Erignac or the trial of dr. Muller. Among his recent cases, he has pleaded in the first instance, in favour of Patrick Balkany, in the case of money laundering of tax fraud and corruption to which it has recently been found. While the Parquet national financier, had requested seven years in prison for the former mayor of Levallois-Perret, the lawyer had widely criticized the press who had, according to him, wanted to “shred” Patrick Balkany. In the judgment rendered in September 2019, he had expressed his amazement. “We paid Balkany,” he said, denouncing a “political morality” and a “hard journalism”. Several times in disagreement with the former mayor of Levallois, the lawyer will not ensure its defence during the appeal trial.
He defended the police against Jean-Luc Mélenchon
By 2019, the lawyer has also defended police officers against Jean-Luc Mélenchon. A case which should be recalled, like many others, its good to remember once it is installed in the place Vendôme. This trial is organized in the following altercations between some of the frames of The France insubordinate and the police came to search the headquarters of the movement, in October 2018, had in effect given rise to several passes weapons between the leader of France insubordinate and the famous lawyer, on Twitter and then in open court.
It is classified rather to the left and was denied the legion of honor
Side political commitment, Eric Dupond-Moretti does not adhere to any party, but it is classified rather to the left of his positions. It has supported Martine Aubry, in the local elections of 2008 in Lille, chairing its committee support. It will also support the former socialist minister to the primary of the PS in 2011, in signing up to a forum in its favour. Eric Dupond-Moretti has also refused the Legion of honor in 2013, demonstrating its contempt for this award.
He asked for the ban of the FN
In 2015, the tenor of the law society called for the banning of the national Front. The lawyer as then the party of “small business that works no evil”, “a party who is pas a republican”. “[Jean-Marie Le Pen] was in charge of the jews, she takes care of the muslims”, was launched, even the lawyer referring to Marine Le Pen.
He has defended bullfighting
By 2019, Eric Dupond-Moretti has signed an appeal against the bullfighting ban to minors, defending up on television to this show, considered a barbarian by his assailants. While a law was in preparation to prohibit the access to the arenas under the age of 16 years, he has repeatedly expressed to the television on the subject, believing that it was a question of freedom. “I want to be able to go to the bullfight without that I forbid to go there […]. This is not more complicated than that tolerance […]. I don’t want that, it annoys me when I decided to go for it !”.
He is also an actor and has done a show
His presence in the media is due not only to his talents as an orator in the law courts as Eric Dupond-Moretti is also an actor. The lawyer will play its own role, in 2013, in the film “the Bastards” Claire Denis. He then played several times the role of a lawyer, in the television movie “The Case of the master Lefort” and then in the comedy “Neuilly her mother, her mother !”. In the film “to Each his own” life, Claude Lelouch, Eric Dupont-Moretti, role change, but remains in the same register when interpreting a president of the Court of assizes. The lawyer also happened on the boards from January 2019, in a single stage called “Eric Dupond-Moretti at the bar”. At the beginning of September 2020, it was to try the radio with a ticket of mood on Europe 1. A project aborted by his appointment.
It is very critical of the justice and the “Republic of judges”
“In France, it is not necessary to having to do with justice,” said Eric Dupond-Moretti, 2015 on France 2. “The justice, before being a virtue, is a administration,” he explained. “She has the qualities and the defects. You can have a bad lawyer, but we can change that. But to have a bad judge, you keep it”, continued the lawyer. Eric Dupond-Moretti has also said that he supported the abolition of the national school of the judiciary.
In June of 2020, the future minister of Justice lodged a complaint following the revelations of the Point on the case of the wiretapping of Nicolas Sarkozy. The investigation by the parquet national financier had led to the monitoring of his telephone as well as that of many other lawyers. Eric Dupond-Moretti had then denounced methods of “barbouzades”. “We don’t do that in Korea. There has ras-le-bol of these methods, of those judges who are free of all the rules in the name of public morality. […] We switched in the Republic of the judges now,” he bemoaned. He withdrew his complaint following his appointment.
He has made statements polemics on women
By 2018, Eric Dupond-Moretti has insured the defence of Georges Tron, the former secretary of State accused of rape by two former employees in his / her municipality of Draveil. It will get once again the acquittal of the mayor of this city of the Essonne department, in insisting on the “logic of vengeance” of the two complainants, for a dismissal and a change of the position (George Tron, however, should be retried soon). In addition to this trial, he will acknowledge some of the feminist movements of “manipulating women” and point out that some of the complainants, far from being victims, “may be attracted by the power”. Then that an offence for contempt of gender had to be created in the same year, he is going to regret it on BFMTV “a hyper-regulation of society”, a word of the complainants ‘ worshipped by the justice,” ensuring that some women “regret not to be whistled” on the street. His role in the trial of the Carlton of Lille, for whom he had defended a part of the Eiffage offering “a good time” (sic) with DSK, is also recalled.
He is in a relationship with singer Isabelle Boulay
