Véronique Malbec

Malbec's participation in certain Council decisions on legislation concerning the Interior Ministry was criticised while her spouse Frédéric Veaux was Director General of the National Police. The issue resurfaced publicly in 2025 in the debate over the Council's recusal mechanisms.

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Reported by the press

Following a hearing at the Constitutional Council on 5 December 2023, Véronique Malbec stopped LFI MP Hadrien Clouet to challenge a tweet that she considered defamatory towards her. Le Canard enchaîné criticised as insufficiently republican the fact that a Council member should admonish a parliamentarian who had attended to present observations.

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Personally implicated

Richard Ferrand's proposal to appoint Malbec to the Constitutional Council was fiercely debated because she had been Prosecutor General in Rennes, the hierarchical superior of the Brest prosecutor when the initial Mutuelles de Bretagne investigation concerning Ferrand was closed without further action.

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On 31 July 2020, as chief of staff to Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti, Malbec instructed the Inspectorate General of Justice to conduct an administrative investigation into magistrate Édouard Levrault. The case subsequently became one of the elements of Dupond-Moretti's trial for illegal taking of interest.

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As chief of staff to the Justice Minister, Malbec was centrally involved in launching the administrative investigation targeting magistrates of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office following the so-called 'fadettes' investigations into telephone records. The magistrates concerned were ultimately not sanctioned by the CSM.

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Charlotte Bilger, appointed special adviser to Éric Dupond-Moretti, left his office three days after taking up her duties. Le Monde reported that, although the minister had approved her departure, it had been driven by his chief of staff Véronique Malbec, who did not want a special adviser reporting directly to the minister.

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Political responsibility

As Director of Judicial Services, Véronique Malbec reiterated before the CSM the minister's wish to impose a reprimand on deputy prosecutor Jean-Dominique Le Milon after remarks comparing the behaviour of police officers facing prosecution to the Gestapo, despite the CSM having already refused to sanction him.

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