2023-12-27 08:54:05
Published on Dec 27 2023 at 9:52Updated Dec 27 2023 at 9:54
“This decision does not surprise us, unfortunately, because we are well aware that our actions once morest corruption deeply annoy the government,” reacted Elise Van Beneden, president of the Anticor office. “It comes following a six-month investigation during which no malfunction was blamed on us by the government and even though the Prime Minister considered last October that Anticor met all the conditions to be approved,” she said. underlines.
Ministers passing the buck
Last June, the Paris administrative court annulled a decree signed in April 2021 by the then Prime Minister, Jean Castex, which renewed this approval for three years. A decision confirmed by the administrative court of appeal on November 16.
The administrative court was seized by two dissidents from the association who considered the procedure for renewing the approval irregular and judged that the association did not meet the conditions required to be approved.
The NGO submitted a new application for approval in June. This was the subject of a deportation by the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti in favor of Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. On December 24, at the last minute, the latter also deported, entrusting – via a decree published that day in the Official Journal – this task to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna. “When we submitted our application for approval, we had already highlighted a risk of conflict of interest in two files: that of the Triangle Tower (in Paris) – Madame Borne was director of town planning at the time – ( and) that of highways – Madame Borne was in the cabinet of (Minister Ségolène) Royal at the time,” explained Elise Van Beneden.
Association’s appeal
The previous approval having been canceled by the courts, “the implicit decision of refusal may be the subject of an appeal before the same administrative justice which will be able to rule on its merits”, it is specified at the Quai d’Orsay . A remedy that the NGO will use.
“We are going to challenge this decision before the administrative courts and are in a way relieved to finally be able to demonstrate that the association meets all the criteria to be approved, sheltered from the political considerations of the government,” he said. she announced.
“The possibility for this association as for others to report cases to the courts and to file a complaint remains intact,” it is specified, however.
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