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Rima Hassan filed a complaint against Laurent Nuñez before France’s Court of Justice of the Republic
The La France insoumise MEP accuses the interior minister of violating investigation secrecy after false information circulated during her police custody. Nuñez denied arranging any leak.
Rima Hassan, a member of the European Parliament from La France insoumise, filed a complaint before France’s Court of Justice of the Republic against Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez for an alleged breach of investigation secrecy.
As reported by France Info, Hassan’s lawyer, Vincent Brengarth, said at a press conference that the minister helped give weight and credibility to information that was not consistent with the facts and that, in his view, damaged the lawmaker’s reputation.
The move followed revelations by the program Complément d’enquête, which said Nuñez had partly contributed to the spread of a false claim that synthetic drugs had been found among Hassan’s personal belongings while she was in police custody. Le Monde also reported that the minister is accused of passing inaccurate information to the press on that issue.
Nuñez denied the allegation and said, according to France Info, that he had not organized any leak.
The complaint before the Court of Justice of the Republic, which handles cases involving sitting ministers, also targets the possession of information covered by investigation secrecy. Brengarth also said he had written to the Paris prosecutor to request the opening of a judicial investigation into the alleged breach.
Asked by AFP, the prosecutor’s office said the preliminary inquiry opened in April on that matter, and assigned to the General Inspectorate of the National Police after multiple press leaks about the police custody, was still ongoing.
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