Although having initially approved the court’s decision, on the 2nd June 2008 the Minister of Justice, Rachida Dati, asked the parquet to lodge an appeal against the judgment, which was filed on the 3rd June (this appeal may still be admissible, the one month period available to the Ministère public to file it according to certain people is to be calculated from the notification of the judgement to him or her,; this analysis is backed up by article 528 of the civil procedure code which indicates that: ‘The period at the expiry of which an appeal may no longer be lodged runs from the notification of the ruling, unless this period has started, by law, from the date of the ruling’).