“I said to myself that it would be useful and interesting to describe what the work of a minister is and the difficulties he faces,” confides the former Minister of Justice on the daily's website.
“The reflex, as a citizen, is to say: All we have to do is, we have to. But as a minister, there is what we want to do and what we can do. And then, we belong to a team, we have to take into account each other’s positions,” he adds.
Settle “some accounts”
In his future show, the one who had already recounted his years as a star lawyer on stage, promises to recount “his first steps, his moments of joy as well as his phases of discouragement, his successes (increasing budgets, filmed trials) and his anger » as minister.
He should also return to “the ordeal of the searches in his office (police officers had opened an old safe with a disk drive) and his trial before the Court of Justice of the Republic (which acquitted him), the media pressure, the work in Parliament, his failed regional campaign in Hauts-de-France where he wanted to trip up the RN,” according to the daily. By settling “a few accounts” along the way.
For the direction, the former minister chose Philippe Lellouche.
-On the poster for his play, he appears in a white shirt and dark blue sweater with a red collar.
Court of Justice
Appointed to everyone's surprise in July 2020, after 36 years of earning his nickname “Acquittator” in the assize courts of France, he was accused a few weeks later of using his new functions as minister to settle old accounts with magistrates.
Investigation, indictment, referral for trial… He was believed to have resigned several times but he remained until September 2024. Even after his appearance before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) in November 2023.
