These are two unpublished and contradictory judgments of the criminal chamber of the Court of Cassation which will cause many reactions in law firms. Tuesday, March 11, the jurisdiction rejected the barrel of the Bâtonnier of the Broadcasting Bar Association, which denounced the payment to a criminal procedure during the parts seized, in 2023, on the orders of the investigating judge Serge Tournaire, in the cabinet and at the home of the lawyer Francis Szpiner.
Conversely, the criminal chamber of the Court of Cassation on Tuesday gave the case to the lawyer Olivier Pardo and his partner Benjamin Mathieu, who also disputed, like the Bâtonnier, the payment of “Litigious seals” In criminal file. Contacted, the Paris bar has not yet reacted.
On June 27, 2023, spectacular searches had been carried out by investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Crime Organized as part of a judicial information opened, in January, by the Paris prosecutor’s office for alleged facts of “kidnapping, sequestration with torture and acts of barbarism, association of criminals and extortion in organized gang”. These operations then targeted Rachida Dati (at the time member of the Les Républicains party, LR), mayor of 7e Paris arrondissement, and lawyer Francis Szpiner (today Senator LR in Paris), his partner Renaud Semerdjian and their colleague Olivier Pardo.
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