“A total lack of rigor”: at the Laporte-Altrad trial, the defense tries to dismantle the PNF file

We would have liked to have this power, but difficult to probe the spirit of François-Xavier Dulin and Céline Guillet this Wednesday. The two prosecutors from the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) scrutinize their computer screen, sometimes stopping to whisper to each other, while the lawyers for the five defendants are working to dismantle in every possible and imaginable way the four years of investigation that led their client to sit on one of the benches of the 32nd correctional chamber of the Paris court.