However the judicial investigation remains open

Judgment in the case of Bettencourt coup. But prosecution of the case of Woerth. The daughter of Liliane Bettencourt, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, announced yesterday have abandoned "all judicial proceedings", in the dispute him three years to his mother. An unexpected epilogue which marks not however the case of the branch policy, this sprawling case likely to cause the former Minister Eric Woerth. It is a two time mechanism, which is set up: appease the family conflict in an attempt to extinguish the fire media around the political case.

Specifically, all proceedings against François - Marie Banier before the correctional tribunal of Nanterre are abandoned. The photographer was charged since December 2007, the only daughter of the billionaire, have captured nearly one billion euros of donations by taking advantage of his psychological hold on his mother. And daughter Liliane Bettencourt puts an end to his application for release under supervision of his mother. "Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers will put an end to all legal proceedings which it has the power as François-Marie Banier and Patrice de Maistre, its manager of fortune, was excluded from his entourage by an agreement," explained MeOlivier Metzner. The tax lawyer Fabrice Goguel, accused by the girl to be the accomplice of François-Marie Banier will do, he, more subject to prosecution with the signing of an agreement.

It is the husband of Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, Jean-Pierre Meyers, who will take the reins of Thétys (read below) and Clymene, company managing the Bettencourt fortune. "So the family found an organization in which Liliane Bettencourt retains its space of freedom and which Françoise and Jean-Pierre will play a decisive role," analysis Didier Martin, counsel for the daughter of the heir of l ' Oréal. In a joint communiqué, Liliane Bettencourt and his daughter indicated an agreement putting an end to their "conflicts", whose provisions will remain "personal and confidential".

"The end of a fantasy."

It's been some time now that talks between the two sides had resumed intensively. The Elysée was anxious to keep a watchful eye on the conduct of the negotiations, as closer to the mother and daughter allowed temporarily to l ' Oréal from Nestlé appetite and permanently avoided pop-up statements of one or the other side. It is the disclosure of Pirate recordings, made between May 2009 and may 2010, at the home of Liliane Bettencourt by his master of hotel, which had launched the political case revealing possible tax evasion, of the interference of the Elysee in the judicial procedure and the links between the billionaire, the Minister Eric Woerth and his wife Florence, who worked for Clymene. Change of scenery to the whole of the record in Bordeaux, early November, had begun to calm the conflict fueled in Nanterre by notorious enmity between the Prosecutor Philippe Courroye and Isabelle Prevost-Desprez j..

However, decision of Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers to abandon his prosecution may have no direct on the criminal side consequence of the case: rest therefore judicial information consisting of four preliminary the Prosecutor of Nanterre, Philippe Courroye investigations, gathering including the politics likely to cause the former Labour Minister, Eric Woerth, and the investigation for money laundering tax evasion. "But maybe it's the beginning of the end of a fantasy", wants to believe Jean-Yves Le Borgne, counsel for the former Minister. For him, there was never "case Woerth. However, the judicial investigation remains open.