Overview
- On Friday Dati formally requested reintegration into the magistracy and the Chancellerie told AFP she will be placed only after the CSM gives its opinion.
- A judicial source said she would not serve in a court but be assigned as a chargé de mission to the ministry’s Délégation des affaires européennes et internationales (DAEI).
- Her criminal trial in Paris is set for 16–28 September on charges including corruption and passive influence peddling linked to alleged lobbying for Renault and Carlos Ghosn and payments of about €900,000.
- The main magistrates’ union criticized the timing as sending a contradictory message and the CSM review could take two weeks to a month because of possible appeals from other candidates.
- Dati faces several parallel inquiries — a May placement as témoin assisté, probes into ties with Azerbaijan and Qatar and a BFAC investigation into undeclared jewels to the HATVP — all of which increase her legal exposure and make the CSM decision politically sensitive.