Yves Bot

Yves Bot , born the August 22nd 1947 with Castle-Thierry (Aisne), wire of a very high-ranking magistrate, is the French prosecuting attorney of the Court of justice of the European Communities. He was until there is little Public prosecutor close the Court of Appeal of Paris. He had the role of reorganizing largest parquet floor of France.

Classified political chessboard on the right but having shown independence in the treatment without kindness of certain businesses relating to RPR, Yves Bot is regarded with by her detractors as a " under-marin" line, today near to Nicolas Sarkozy.

Yves Bot is a former member directing of the Professional association of the magistrates (APM), like Georges Fenech.

Course

Yves Bot supported in 1980 with the Université Paris 2 a thesis of Doctorat of State in right, under the direction of Professor Jean-Claude Soyer entitled the legal authority and the execution of the sorrows . It was high with the rank of doctor d' Etat with the " mention very bien".

Yves Bot was named Auditeur of justice in December 1970. Initially Substitute of the parquet floor of the Mans of 1974 to 1980 then First substitute of the parquet floor of Mans of 1980 to 1982, Yves Bot is Public prosecutor with Dieppe of 1982 to 1984 and assistant prosecutor of the Republic with Strasbourg of 1984 to 1986. Then, Yves Bot is named public prosecutor of Bastia of 1986 to 1988.

He became prosecuting attorney of the Court of Appeal of Caen of 1988 to 1991, then public prosecutor of the Mans in 1991. As a prosecutor of Mans, it supported the examining magistrate Thierry Jean-Pierre, which completed the instructions in the politico-financial business Urba, concerning the loan of Pierre Bérégovoy and blaming Roger-Patrice Pelat, a close relation of the president of the Republic of the time, François Mitterrand.

Operations manager for the penal matters, penitentiary of the legal protection of the youth of June 1993 in May 1995 in the cabinet of Pierre Méhaignerie, Minister of Justice.

Yves Bot was named Public prosecutor of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) by the Minister of Justice Jacques Toubon against the opinion of the Superior council of the magistrature (CSM). It was thus that which warned the Elysium of the Tuerie of Nanterre, during which exaggerated, Richard Durn, had opened fire at a meeting of the municipal council.

During its passage to Nanterre two major businesses implying RPR burst and thrived: the Business Casetta, of the name of the former occult trésorière of RPR, and the Business of the fictional jobs of the RPR, in which was put in examination the former Prime Minister Alain Juppe.

Yves Bot drew aside in March 1999 a possible hearing of Jacques Chirac, whereas this one was likely to be blamed in the Affaire of the fictional jobs of RPR. He had indeed stated himself inefficient to continue the President of the Republic in the performance of his duties, thus following a decision of the Constitutional council of January 22nd, 1999. Judge Patrick Desmure, appointed thereafter prosecutor in Chartres, had followed the requisitions of the prosecutor.

Yves Bot becomes Public prosecutor of Paris while succeeding Jean-Pierre Dintilhac, which is named to advise with the Court of appeal.

Yves Bot was then named Public prosecutor of Paris by a decree published in the Official journal the October 4th 2002. The Superior council of the magistrature (CSM), seized for opinion on this nomination, delivered an favorable opinion.

He is prosecuting attorney with the Court of justice of the European Communities, since the October 7th 2006 with Luxembourg. Laurent Mesle succeeded to him like Public prosecutor of Paris

A sensitive station

the function of Public prosecutor close the Court of Appeal of Paris is a station at the same time coveted and very exposed because of the sensitivity of the politico-financial businesses which are treated there. The nomination of Yves Bot was ratified by a Presidential decree République, Jacques Chirac, on October 4th 2002 and publish with the Official journal.

In the fight for this eminently political station that is the parquet floor of Paris, Yves Bot carried it on her rivals, among whom appeared the prosecutor of Lyon Christian Hassenfratz, the public prosecutor close the Court of Appeal of Rouen Christian Raysseguier or Jean-Claude Marin, prosecuting attorney at the Court of appeal, finally named directing of the criminal cases and graces (DACG), another highly strategic station.

the prosecutor of Paris had to still manage extreme politico-financial files with the instruction, like the businesses Elf, Falcone or the markets of restoration of the colleges of Ile-de-France. He also came to a conclusion about the thorny question of the “fresh of mouth, of management and of kitchen ” of the Mairie of Paris, denounced by the current municipality but in this case the facts are, seems it, prescribed.

the business of outreau - Concerning the pedophilia case of Outreau, in November 2005, the public prosecutor of Paris, Yves Bot, presented before the Court of Assizes of call of Paris his " regrets" with shown and the request for general acquittal in their favor confirmed.

the March 8th 2006, heard by the parliamentary board of inquiry on the Business of Outreau, Yves Bot proposed to the deputies the suppression of the Juge of freedoms and of detention, a function creates in 2000 to discharge the Examining magistrate, which, according to him proves “to be an pseudo good idea”.

Since 2006, Yves Bot is Prosecuting attorney close the Court of justice of the European Communities

Work

My justice. Nearer, more human, stronger , Bourin editions, February 2007, 164 p.
Legal institutions. Organization and operation , editions Shepherd-Levrault, Collection new Administration, 1985,220 p.

Quotations

“ the jurisdictions of common right is inefficient to judge a President-in-Office because that would amount instituting a mode of control of the executive power by the legal authority ”
“ This true catastrophe, it is not the justice of the every day. We must make so that does not reproduce any more. The step in this enclosure, it is a step of repair ”
“ the general prosecutor did not require the payment as one throws the sponge ”
“ It is not possible to pose as a priori that all that is the fault of two/three people. It is with the scanner, with the IRM which it this file should be passed. There were too many bulk-headings, too many institutions which intervened in this business ”
“ I would like to say our regrets in your connection. If you can feel sincerity of it, I would not have wasted my time by holding your attention a few minutes more ”
“ Outreau gave birth to the doubt about justice, it thus will be necessary to again transform this doubt into a confidence. We already started to work there ”

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

Portrait on the site of the Court of justice of the European Communities
Portrait of Mr. Yves Bot
Hearing of Mr. Yves Bot on the narcotics
Hearing of Mr. Yves Bot on the bankruptcy courts
Ministry for legal Justice
Glossary on the Public prosecutor

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