Laurence Vichnievsky

Three senators requested Laurence Vichnievsky's recusal during the constitutional review of the assisted dying law, citing her earlier positions and parliamentary roles on related matters.

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Vichnievsky was among the 61 MPs who referred the Molac law on regional languages to the Constitutional Council. The decision struck down, among other things, immersive teaching under certain conditions, and the signatories faced strong reactions from regional language associations and media outlets, some portraying them as opponents of regional languages.

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During the 2012 presidential campaign, Vichnievsky announced that she would not attend Eva Joly's final rally, citing what she described as the candidate's 'missteps' concerning Gaza and the judiciary in relation to the Erika case.

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As EELV spokesperson, Vichnievsky considered that debt required the party to revise its programme and described, among other things, a return to retirement at 60 as a 'fanciful notion'. Eva Joly and Cécile Duflot publicly disagreed; Vichnievsky announced that she was leaving the spokesperson role to preserve her freedom of expression.

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Vichnievsky called on EELV to show greater realism about phasing out nuclear power and welcomed François Hollande's position, prompting a response from Eva Joly's spokesperson Yannick Jadot, who asked her to draw the appropriate conclusions about her place in the party.

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Lawyer Éric Turcon brought proceedings against Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky concerning searches of his office and home in the Elf affair, alleging, among other things, unlawful entry and breaches of confidentiality of correspondence.

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Laurence Vichnievsky spent several years investigating cases involving alleged covert financing of the PCF through the Gifco group. In 2001, Robert Hue and several other defendants were acquitted; Le Monde described most of the investigation as having been 'largely undermined'. A related branch of the Gifco case investigated by her was also annulled in its entirety for a procedural defect.

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During financial investigations, Vichnievsky sought to question former minister and senator Michel Charasse as a witness. He refused, citing separation of powers. Following summonses and an unsuccessful attempt to lift immunity, an initial fine of 10,000 francs was overturned on procedural grounds; in January 2000, Vichnievsky and Henri Pons imposed another fine.

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Roland Dumas's lawyers sought the recusal of investigating judges Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky in the Elf affair, alleging what they described as serious and repeated manifestations of bias, particularly concerning the questioning of Christine Deviers-Joncour.

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In January 1998, the Paris prosecutor's office asked the Indictment Chamber to partially annul acts carried out by Eva Joly and Laurence Vichnievsky in the Elf affair, considering that certain investigative measures concerning Christine Deviers-Joncour related to matters which had not yet been formally referred to the judges.

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In September 1991, Laurence Vichnievsky, then an investigating judge, issued a decision dismissing the case (non-lieu) in the intentional homicide investigation opened at Robert Boulin's family's request, adopting the judicial conclusion of suicide. The family strongly disputed this conclusion and cited several elements they considered incompatible with suicide.

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