What is particularly sensitive in the Outreau affair in France is that one of the main actors in the affair, the lawyer Eric Dupont-Moretti, has been Minister of Justice since 2020.
Before that, the power and high profile of the defense lawyers as well as the status of some of the acquitted prevented the children’s truth from being revealed en masse to the French people. But the importance of the minister in Macron’s fragile government makes the equation very complicated for the children’s voice in the matter.
In Outreau, he managed to acquit the “baker” Roselyne Godard, this affair giving him national notoriety.
He was one of the most odious lawyers with the children, but could Netflix openly criticize the French Minister of Justice, while they often have to negotiate with Macron on the themes of taxation or cultural investment in French programs?
Eric Dupont-Moretti next to Daniel Legrand (acquitted)