2024-05-27 09:16:06
In France, MP Herbert Julien Laferrière could lose his parliamentary immunity over his stance on varied diplomatic points, particularly these regarding Benin. The French Ministry of Justice has submitted a request to elevate his immunity, which is at the moment beneath evaluation by the Ministry of Justice’s Felony Affairs and Pardons Directorate.
Julien-Laferrière is beneath investigation by the Nationwide Monetary Prosecutor’s Workplace for suspected affect peddling and corruption. His public statements on international affairs, and significantly on Benin, are on the coronary heart of this investigation.
In July 2022, the congressman and 75 different elected officers despatched a letter to President Macron condemning the arrest of Beninite opponents Rekia Madugu and Joel Avo, and their sentences of 20 years and 10 years in jail respectively. The representatives described the imprisonments as authoritarian abuses by Patrice Talon’s authorities and criticized the detention situations of opponents as “undignifying and degrading”. In addition they condemned the “travesty of a trial” that was carried out in in the future by Benin’s judicial system with out the presentation of proof.
Julien-Laferrière’s place will probably be pushed by his contacts with lobbyist Jean-Pierre Duthion, who pays him for his intervention within the detention of Reckya Madougou in Benin.
The request to cancel the immunity, obtained on Wednesday 22 Might 2024, is at the moment being processed and can quickly be forwarded to the French Parliament for evaluation.
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