Julien Odoul is not the easiest to defend. The deputy (National Rally, RN) of Yonne, heard on October 22 at the trial of the assistants of the National Front (FN, the former name of the RN) in the European Parliament, responded ” anything “ with a little smirk, according to the prosecutors' brutal summary, and he was not for nothing in the feeling of a “deliberate, ostensible, renewed contempt” from the defendants, including at the hearing. Me Tristan Simon, Monday November 25, bravely tried it, in the last days of the defense pleadings.
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The lawyer felt that there were so many“uncertainties” in the act which refers the matter to the court, that the judges have no other choice but to refer the file to the public prosecutor's office, “ become quicksandto refer the matter again to an investigating judge. The court has already heard this at the start of the hearing, and will rule on this improbable request during its judgment in the spring of 2025. In the meantime, Me Simon tried to prove that Mr. Odoul had worked well for his MEP, Mylène Troszczynski, from October 2014 to July 2015.
Me Simon clearly recognized that there had been “an absence” the first months, while his client's MP settles in, but “jurisprudence requires a total absence of work”and he found the trace of a parliamentary journal, of which his client would have “brought the model”the latter would also have run the website and social networks, written some notes and press releases: “So that makes six categories of evidence, each with five or six objective documents”triumphed the lawyer. Furthermore, if the public prosecutor has not proven that his client worked for the party, it is therefore good that he was assisting his MP.
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The reality is obviously less simple. The young man, 29 years old at the time, dreamed of working in the office of Marine Le Pen, then president of the FN, and the director of the latter's office wrote to him in September 2014: “Whew, it’s OK. Financial arrangement in a week ». “Hallelujah! ! ! », replied Mr. Odoul. “You will perhaps be supported by the European Parliament, had taken over the director, which is perfectly neutral. » ” No problem “the candidate concluded. “The chief of staff said it was perfectly neutralhis lawyer laboriously explained. Julien Odoul is unemployed, he is enthusiastic, he does not see the problem. It only proves his determination to work. »
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