Georges Fenech is a French politician. His father was Maltese and his mother of Italian origin. In 1963, his family was repatriated in France, they settled in Givors. After his law degree he started a career as a judge. One of his most high profile cases was the investigation on the assassination of the judge François Renaud (nicknamed "the sherif" by Lyon's underworld) in Lyon on July 3, 1975.

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  • Georges Fenech is a French politician. His father was Maltese and his mother of Italian origin. In 1963, his family was repatriated in France, they settled in Givors. After his law degree he started a career as a judge. One of his most high profile cases was the investigation on the assassination of the judge François Renaud (nicknamed "the sherif" by Lyon's underworld) in Lyon on July 3, 1975. Georges Fenech was president of the judges trade union Association Professionnelle des Magistrats(APM) till 1998. He resigned following the publication in the magazine of the APM of an article on the Procureur (District Attoney) of Toulon, Albert Lévy, containing the sentence Tant va Lévy au four qu’à la fin il se brûle (Lévy went so often to the oven that he got burnt). Fenech was found guilty of racist public insult against the Jewish magistrate. He started a political career with his 2002 election as a member of Assemblée Nationale (representing the Rhône as a member of Union for a Popular Movement and was reelected in 2007. He is a strong advocate of zero tolerance policy in criminal matters. He was the president of the parliamentary commission for the monitoring of cults. On March 27, 2008 the Conseil Constitutionnel canceled his reelection on the grounds of violation of campaign finance laws and made him ineligible for one year. Fenech has protested the decision and appealed to president Nicolas Sarkozy.. On September 23, 2008 Georges Fenech was appointed president of Miviludes, a body within the french executive in charge of the monitoring of cults. He is the authors on books on cults and the zero tolerance policy. On Wednesday 11 February 2009, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Paris demanded a suspended six-month prison term for Georges Fenech for his alleged role in the Angolagate, a matter of illegal sales of weapons to Angola.
  • Georges Vincent Antoine Fenech est un homme politique français et un magistrat, né le 26 octobre 1954 à Sousse.
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  • Georges Fenech is a French politician. His father was Maltese and his mother of Italian origin. In 1963, his family was repatriated in France, they settled in Givors. After his law degree he started a career as a judge. One of his most high profile cases was the investigation on the assassination of the judge François Renaud (nicknamed "the sherif" by Lyon's underworld) in Lyon on July 3, 1975.
  • Georges Vincent Antoine Fenech est un homme politique français et un magistrat, né le 26 octobre 1954 à Sousse.
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  • Georges Fenech
  • Georges Fenech
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