Two French prosecutors have landed themselves in hot water after being
caught tweeting during a trial, judicial sources revealed Wednesday.
The
pair are being investigated over a Twitter exchange which suggests they
were frustrated with the pace of proceedings in an attempted murder
case in a court in the Landes area of southwestern France.
"Here's
a jurisprudence question for you: a prosecutor who strangles the judge
in the middle of a case, how long would he get?" read the opening tweet,
to which his colleague replied: "I'll stand as a character witness!"
The
banter continued in a similar vein and was picked up and published by
local newspaper Sud Ouest. It could not be accessed Wednesday as the two
Twitter accounts involved had been deleted since the end of the trial
last week.
The two prosecutors have not been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.