2023-08-03 07:43:40
Marie-Suzanne Le Quéau, then Attorney General of Douai, in Douai (North), January 22, 2016. JOHAN BEN AZZOUZ / PHOTOPQR / VOIX DU NORD
End of the game of musical chairs at the top of the judiciary. By a decree published on August 2 in the Official newspaper, Emmanuel Macron has confirmed the appointment of Marie-Suzanne Le Quéau as Attorney General at the Paris Court of Appeal. Second woman in more than two hundred years to occupy this position as sensitive as it is prestigious, after Catherine Melet-Champrenault (from 2015 to 2021), she succeeds Rémy Heitz, new Attorney General at the Court of Cassation, where he replaces the now retired Francois Molins.
After starting out as an examining magistrate in Limoges in 1984, Ms. Le Quéau devoted a large part of her career to the prosecution. Attorney General in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône) since 2019, after having worked at the same rank in Douai (North), she had previously represented the public prosecutor’s office in Bernay (Eure), Pontoise (Val-d’Oise ), Evreux, Evry, Auxerre, where she was in charge of the highly publicized case of Emile Louis, sentenced in 2006 to life imprisonment for a series of murders committed in the late 1970s.
Other assignments complete a complete career within the judiciary: adviser to the Socialist Minister of Justice Henri Nallet in the early 1990s, she collaborated, from 2012 to 2014, with another left-wing Keeper of the Seals, Christiane Taubira, at the highly strategic Department of Criminal Affairs and Pardons, responsible for conducting public policies in criminal matters. Enough to be approached in the spring at the Court of Cassation, where no woman has ever been Attorney General.
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At the head of the Paris Court of Appeal, Marie-Suzanne Le Quéau will occupy a function no less exposed. This General Prosecutor’s Office, by far the most endowed with human resources, enjoys unrivaled territorial (nine prosecutor’s offices under its authority, from Paris to Auxerre) as well as material (National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office and National Financial Prosecutor’s Office) competence. An eminent mission, therefore, but a promotion ” logic “according to several attorneys general interviewed.
Concerned about the independence of the prosecution
“She is a good professional, she ticks all the boxes with her backgroundconfirms a magistrate. After going through several major jurisdictions, here she is dubbed by political power. » A way of remembering that, if her CV makes her ” legit “, his new assignment was conditional on the proposal to this effect from the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, before the favorable opinion issued on July 18 by the Superior Council of the Judiciary. The independence of the prosecution? Ms. Le Quéau has already had the opportunity to talk to the former lawyer about the promises not kept by the executive for several five years.
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