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A French MP is liable to dropping his immunity

In France, the MP Herbert Julien-Laferrière is at risk of dropping his immunity for his posts on numerous international affairs, together with some on Benin. A request to elevate his immunity has been submitted by the French justice system, and is claimed to be being examined by the Directorate of Legal Affairs and Pardons of the French Ministry of Justice.

Suspected of affect peddling and corruption, French MP Herbert Julien-Laferrière is underneath investigation by the nationwide monetary prosecutor’s workplace after taking public positions on numerous points, together with these associated to Benin. By a letter addressed to the French President, Emmanuel Macron, the senator and 75 different elected officers in accordance with a number of sources, talked about in July 2022, the opponents of Reckya Madougou and Joël Aïvo have been arrested to twenty and 10 years in jail in Benin. For these French delegates, the imprisonment of those opposition leaders in Benin is tantamount to Talon’s “authoritarian abuse of the federal government”. That they had additionally criticized the detention situations of those Beninese opponents as “unworthy and degrading”, in addition to “the 2 circumstances of trials held in sooner or later and the place no proof was supplied by the courts”. The response of the French senator could be provoked. In reference to the lobbyist Jean-Pierre Duthion, he could be paid by the latter within the case of Benin associated to the detention of the opponent Reckya Madougou.

The request for the lifting of immunity acquired on Wednesday Could 22, 2024, is being processed within the Directorate of Legal Affairs and Pardons of the French Ministry of Justice, and shall be transferred to the French Parliament for examination.

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on 26 Could 2024 F. Aubin Ahéhéhinnou,
Ignace B. Fanou