Avignon Lawyer Suspended, Banned for Posting Court Photos on Social Media

The verdict was delivered on Tuesday. While an 18-month firm ban from practicing as a lawyer had been requested against her during the hearing on February 19, Nadia El Bouroumi was sentenced to a one-year suspended suspension by the regional disciplinary council of the Nîmes Court of Appeal. She is accused of having published photos of hearings taken between 2021 and 2023 on social media.

The Avignon magistrate was found guilty of having "contravened the ethical rules of the legal profession by being a shareholder in a commercial company providing coaching services while this activity is not related to the legal profession" and of having been "president of a commercial company whose corporate purpose covers the activities of the legal profession without being either registered with the bar or subject to its rules," according to the Council’s decision consulted by LCI Vaucluse.

The criminal defense lawyer was also convicted for an incident with a colleague that took place in May 2023 at the Évry courthouse. However, she was acquitted for publishing photos of hearings on her social media. Furthermore, El Bouroumi will no longer be able to be part of the bar association or the national bar council. She is also required to complete 20 hours of ethics training.

Unsatisfied with this verdict, the criminal defense lawyer will appeal. "I will always fight for the lawyer’s scope of action to evolve. Because we cannot, in 2025, reduce our profession to a fixed practice, disconnected from economic, social and human realities," she believes.

These facts predate the so-called Mazan rape trial. The lawyer had made controversial statements for which "no disciplinary procedure has been initiated so far."