Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi

Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi (12 November 1939 – 12 October 2023) was a French lawyer and a member of the Paris Bar Association.[1]

Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi
Born(1939-11-12)12 November 1939
Ambleny, France
Died12 October 2023(2023-10-12) (aged 83)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationLawyer

Biography

Born in Ambleny on 12 November 1939, Versini-Campinchi was born in a family home in which he lived his whole life.[2] He was of Corsican origin on his father's side, with the Versini and Campinchi families coming from villages along the Golfe de Sagone.[3] He was the grand-nephew of César Campinchi, a prominent lawyer, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and Minister of the Navy in the French Third Republic.[4] His mother was of Martinican origin and raised by his maternal grandfather,[5] Robert Attuly, a magistrate and the first West Indian to serve on the Court of Cassation.[6] Married at the age of 20, Versini-Campinchi had three daughters from a first marriage and two more children from a second.[7] His son, François, was also a lawyer.

Versini-Campinchi first specialized in commercial and highly contentious cases before moving towards criminal law in the 1980s.[8] His firm was made up of three partners: himself, Fanny Colin, and Alexandre Merveille. The firm mainly dealt with criminal cases and commercial disputes.[9] He was a member of the Paris Bar Association from 2003 to 2005.[8]

In the 1990s, Versini-Campinchi represented GIFCO in a case of financing the French Communist Party, in which he obtained recusal of the president of the correctional chamber.[10] In the Michel Mouillot case, he defended the former mayor of Cannes accused of corruption and obtained the recusal of investigating judge Murciano de Grasse.[11] At the end of the 1990s and start of the 2000s, he represented businessman Jeffrey Steiner at the beginning of the Elf Affair.[12] He also represented Jean-Christophe Mitterrand during the Mitterrand–Pasqua affair,[13] in which he was acquitted on charges of human trafficking.[14]

Versini-Campinchi represented founder of Buffalo Grill Christian Picart, who was accused of violating the embargo on English meats allegedly responsible for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.[15] During the trial, Versini-Campinchi was sanctioned by the Paris Bar Association for violating the secrecy of the investigation. The case was taken up to the Court of Cassation and the European Court of Human Rights, which are studied today as case law on the interception of telephone communications between a lawyer and their client.[16][17]

In the Agnès Le Roux Affair, Versini-Campinchi, alongside François Saint-Pierre, defended Maurice Agnelet, who was convicted of the murder of Agnès Le Roux. However, Agnelet maintained his innocence and was eventually acquitted of the charges.[18] He represented Prime Minister François Fillon in his opposition to Jean-Pierre Jouyet.[19][20] He also represented Vinci SA following a complaint from the Association Sherpa[21] on the treatment of construction workers in Qatar.[22] In the Uramin affair,[23] he represented former Areva president Anne Lauvergeon.[24][25] In 2017, he became the lawyer for Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation.[26][27] In 2019, he defended Éliane Houlette, former Parquet national financier, prosecuted by the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature.[28][29]

For many years, Versini-Campinchi campaigned to remove authorization for lawyers to wear decorations on their attire.[30][31] He also refused the Legion of Honour bestowed upon him by the Minister of Justice in 2011.[32][33]

Outside of his professional life, Versini-Campinchi also inspired a bill allowing parents to declare their home to be the birthplace of their children, not the hospital in which they were born.[34] He created the Association Renaissance des Villages alongside Jean-Cyril Spinetta.[35]

Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi died on 12 October 2023, at the age of 83.[36]

Book
  • Papiers d'identités (2020)

References
  1. Fansten, Emmanuel (12 October 2023). "Mort de l'avocat Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi, la défense tout en élégance". Libération (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  2. Sugy, Paul (23 December 2020). "Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi et ses ancêtres les Gaulois". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  3. Kruslin, Noël (27 May 2017). "Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi : "Je suis devenu le huron dans un monde étranger"". Corse-Matin (in French). Archived from the original on 31 July 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  4. "La place César Campinchi dévoile sa plaque". Ajaccio (in French).
  5. Piel, Simon (4 November 2020). "Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi, optimiste réfractaire". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  6. "Audience de début d'année judiciaire - Octobre 1964". Court of Cassation (in French).
  7. "Papiers d'identités". Éditions du Cerf (in French).
  8. "Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi". Grands Avocats (in French).
  9. "Le contentieux au soutien des affaires". Versini-Campinci, Merveille & Colin (in French).
  10. Johannes, Franck (27 October 2000). "Au procès du financement du PCF, les avocats du Gifco réclament la récusation de la présidente". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  11. "Le juge Murciano déssaisi du dossier Mouillot". Libération (in French). 26 March 1998. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  12. "La parole est aux avocats des accusés". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 11 June 2003. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  13. "Angolagate : Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, un homme "crucifié"". Le Nouvel Observateur (in French). 16 February 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  14. "Le fils aîné de François Mitterrand relaxé pour trafic d'armes". Reuters (in French). 27 October 2009. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  15. "Les deux avocats de la chaîne de restaurants poursuivis pour violation du secret professionnel". Le Monde (in French). 5 December 2003. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  16. "La suspension de deux avocats de Buffalo Grill annulée". Libération (in French). 16 January 2004. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  17. Recasens, Olivia (20 June 2016). "La fin du secret des avocats ?". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  18. Valdiguié, Laurent (21 January 2021). "Affaire Agnès Leroux : « Maurice Agnelet était innocent »". Marianne (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  19. "Me Versini-Campinchi : "Mr Jouyet va probablement démissionner"". YouTube (in French). 12 November 2014.
  20. Hausalter, Louis (12 November 2014). "Les deux journalistes du Monde, "supplétifs d'une police politique"". Europe 1 (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  21. "Chantiers liés au Mondial-2022 : Vinci perquisitionné en 2020 après des accusations de travail forcé". Sud Ouest (in French). 24 June 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  22. "VIDEOS. Vinci sort l'artillerie lourde contre Sherpa". Le Parisien (in French). 22 June 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  23. Lopez, Marie-Caroline (8 February 2012). "Anne Lauvergeon contre Areva : la bataille est lancée". La Tribune (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  24. "Anne Lauvergeon et son mari portent plainte pour écoutes illégales". Le Point (in French). 20 December 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  25. "Anne Lauvergeon dépose une nouvelle plainte pour espionnage". Libération (in French). 1 May 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  26. "Rugby : Bernard Laporte et Mohed Altrad jugés en septembre pour des soupçons de favoritisme". Midi Libre (in French). Montpellier. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  27. Duzan, Marc (21 September 2020). "L'avocat de Bernard Laporte sort du silence : "C'est déplorable"". Rugbyrama (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  28. Leplongeon, Marc (9 April 2021). "L'ex-cheffe du Parquet national financier porte plainte pour dénonciation calomnieuse". Le Point (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  29. Valdiguié, Laurent (8 January 2021). "Info Marianne : le parquet de Nanterre blanchit Éliane Houlette, l'ex patronne du parquet national financier". Marianne (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  30. Jouan, Anne (17 February 2014). "Les avocats ne veulent pas renoncer à afficher leurs décorations sur leur robe". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  31. Valdiguié, Laurent (16 February 2014). "Plaidoirie pour des robes neutres". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  32. Barbonneau, Marine (18 February 2014). "Décorations sur la robe d'avocat : Me Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi n'en veut pas". Dalloz (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  33. "Le tableau d'honneur". Sud Ouest (in French). 17 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  34. Lombard-Latune, Marie-Amélie (23 May 2013). "«Pouvoir déclarer la naissance de son enfant là où on habite»". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  35. Monti, Charles (25 August 2013). "Etat civil : Pourquoi ne nait-on plus dans les villages ?". Corse Net Infos (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  36. Johannès, Franck (13 October 2023). "La mort de l'avocat pénaliste Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 18 October 2023.
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