battle over the disclosure of emails and data seized at Bercy

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An intense and very sensitive legal battle is raging on the sidelines of the judicial investigation targeting the secretary general of the Elysée, Alexis Kohler. Indicted since September 2022 for “illegal taking of interests” as part of an investigation into his family and professional ties with the shipowner MSC, Emmanuel Macron’s right arm opposes communication to the Anticor association – civil party in the file – numerous documents seized during a search in Bercy.

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Alexis Kohler is being sued for his ties to MSC, a company founded and run by his mother’s cousins, the Aponte family, as revealed Mediapart in 2018. Thus, between 2010 and 2012, Mr. Kohler, then deputy director of the Agence des participations de l’Etat (APE), took part in deliberations concerning two structures of which he was a director, STX France (today hui Chantiers de l’Atlantique) and the Grand Port maritime du Havre, both linked to MSC. The former superiors of Mr. Kohler at the APE, Bruno Bézard and Jean-Dominique Comolli, were also indicted on February 9 for “complicity in the illegal taking of interests”.

It was as part of this investigation that a search was carried out on June 6, 2018, in Bercy. The police seized, on this occasion, the entire Outlook email, between 2014 and 2018, of Mr. Kohler, but also those of Julien Denormandie and Thomas Cazenave, other pillars of Macronie in the making – the three men were the collaborators of Mr. Macron when the latter was Minister of the Economy.

“Particularly sensitive” documents

This period is pivotal, as it coincides with the implementation of Mr. Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign, then of his first steps at the Elysée. At the end of the search at Bercy, an imposing mass of data is therefore kept on an external hard drive, the seal “DSI Department One”. Investigators from the economic crime repression brigade exploited her.

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The Anticor anti-corruption association, a very active civil party in the case, thought it had access to these documents, believing that many elements of interest to the judicial investigation could appear in these email exchanges. But it is the lawyer of the secretary general of the Elysée, Me Eric Dezeuze, who was able, on January 16, to obtain a copy of all of these documents. Anticor, through one of its advisers, Me Jean-Baptiste Soufron, logically asks, in the process, access to these digital seals. On February 14, the investigating judge Virginie Tilmont acceded to his request.

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