Provisional end of the game for Fabrice Di Vizio? The lawyer, a figure of “antivax” and anti-sanitary passes, was sentenced on Wednesday to a six-month suspended ban on practicing. A weaker sentence than the requisitions, since six months of prohibition to practice the profession of lawyer, including three farms, had been required Tuesday, September 27, 2022 against him. He is also prohibited for the next five years from being part of the Council of the Bar Association and other professional bodies.
Fabrice Di Vizio was prosecuted for having breached “the essential principles of the legal profession” and in particular for having made “rude” remarks on his Twitter account and in the program “Touche pas à mon poste” (TPMP) on C8. , “vulgar” and “offensive”, recalled the formation of judgment.
“Failures of essential principles”
In its decision, the Council of the Order notably found Fabrice Di Vizio guilty of “breaches of the essential principles of the profession of dignity, conscience, probity, humanity, honor, brotherhood, delicacy, moderation, courtesy”, but also to the rules governing the public speaking of lawyers.
Indeed, he was also accused of having written on Twitter that he wanted to terminate the contract of one of his collaborators at the firm because she had agreed to be vaccinated, and of having incited his audience to multiply the recourse against the health pass and vaccination, “without raising public awareness of the hazards and judicial time”.
“Reinforced freedom of expression”
During the hearing, which was attended by more than 200 of his supporters, Fabrice Di Vizio, round glasses and bald head, had recognized most of the comments made on Twitter and invoked his “enhanced freedom of expression” in the context of a “public interest debate”.
“The Jacques Mesrine of the legal profession has received his conviction”, he reacted to the decision on Twitter, specifying that he would take the floor this Wednesday evening to announce whether or not he is appealing the decision. decision.