The least we can say is that business is picking up ;) Bernard Accoyer who had already illustrated in the remuneration of the members of the assembly and the government goes on the attack and defends the political interests of the latter, by putting a leaden screed on the file of Karachi. When it's too much, it's Tropico...
PARIS (Reuters) - Families of victims of the Karachi bombing will file a complaint against the speaker of the National Assembly, who refuses to submit parliamentary hearings to justice, their lawyer said on Wednesday.
The investigating judge Marc Trévidic, in charge of the investigation into this attack of May 8, 2002 against employees of the Direction des constructions navales (DCN), supported by the Socialist Party, asked for the transmission of the testimonies of the protagonists heard by a parliamentary mission.
"For constitutional reasons of principle (...), your request for access to the internal documents of the fact-finding mission cannot be granted a favorable response", writes Bernard Accoyer in his letter to the examining magistrate Marc Trévidic, including Reuters got a copy.
For Olivier Morice, lawyer for families of victims, the UMP president of the Assembly seeks to prevent the investigation from advancing because it could involve politicians.
“We consider that the motivation for the refusal to transmit the hearings is totally unfounded and that, in reality, it is a political decision to avoid transmitting to justice compromising information on a certain number of French politicians”, he told Reuters.
The complaint for "offence of obstruction of justice" also targets UMP deputy Guy Teissier, chairman of the Defense Committee, who first refused to hand over the minutes of the hearings to the judge.
The motive for the May 8, 2002 attack, which killed 15 people, including 11 French people, could be revenge after the cessation of payment of commissions to Pakistani officials on the sidelines of this arms deal signed in 1994.
Part of the money from these commissions could have returned to France, according to the investigators, to finance the presidential campaign of Edouard Balladur in 1995, whose spokesman was Nicolas Sarkozy.
This is what would have led Jacques Chirac, once elected president, to stop payments to Pakistan.
"The role of parliamentary control, particularly through parliamentary missions, must be complementary to but distinct from that of the judicial authority," said Bernard Accoyer, made aware of this complaint, to the press agencies.
This justification "is a decoy", replied Olivier Morice, aiming to "hide a decision which is political and has no serious legal basis".
In the investigation into the attack that triggered the Rwandan genocide in 1994, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière had also obtained the transmission of information of the same nature, says the lawyer.
Emile Picy and Clément Guillou, edited by Yves Clarisse
source: Reuters
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