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Griveaux case: Piotr Pavlenski requests the cancellation of his police custody

2020-08-09T15:25:56.632Z


Indicted for having broadcast an intimate video of Benjamin Griveaux, the Russian artist believes he was unfairly deprived of the right to be a


The affair of Benjamin Griveaux's “sextape” erupted before confinement linked to the Covid-19 epidemic. Or another era. But the investigation is ongoing and the defense does not fail to dismantle the investigative acts. After refusing to submit to the psychiatric expertise requested by the examining magistrate, Piotr Pavlenski, indicted for having posted on his personal website the intimate video that caused the fall of the former LREM candidate for mayor de Paris, calls for the outright cancellation of his police custody.

"The fact that Mr. Pavlenski was not assisted by a lawyer of his choice during police custody deprived him of the assistance of a lawyer of his choice and he was thus deprived of the possibility of choosing to answer questions during hearings, write the lawyers of the 36-year-old Russian artist, Messrs. Yassine Bouzrou and Juan Branco, in their nullity request filed on July 30 before the Paris investigative chamber. Indeed, in the absence of an interview with a lawyer, Mr. Pavlenski could only choose to exercise his right to silence. "

The Juan Branco case

An imbroglio indeed appeared when the native performer of Saint Petersburg was arrested in Paris and then placed in police custody at the brigade for the repression of delinquency against the person (BRDP) on February 16. Pavlenski then asks to be assisted by the young pamphleteer lawyer Juan Branco. He is faced with a refusal. The prosecution indeed questions "a possible conflict of interest" since the latter "is cited in the initial complaint".

In reality, Benjamin Griveaux does not directly incriminate Juan Branco in his hearing. He indicates having read that "the media [have established] a link between Branco and Pavlenski", referring to a photo from the New Year 2020 in which the two men appear together and published by a weekly. If he emphasizes that the young lawyer close to the yellow vests was present when protesters attacked his ministry in January 2019, the former government spokesperson does not provide any element linking the troublemaker to the dissemination of his intimate video.

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The president of Paris is nevertheless seized by the prosecution and urgently proposes a lawyer appointed to Pavlenski. The Russian refuses and wallows in silence. He reiterates his request to be assisted by Me Branco during his presentation before the investigating judge. In the meantime, the Bâtonnier of Paris concludes that there is no conflict of interest. He nevertheless suggests to the young lawyer to deport himself because of "an absence of distance".

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A simple opinion. "No decision of the President of the Bar of Paris had thus prohibited Me Juan Branco from intervening in support of the interests of Mr. Pavlenski because of the finding of a conflict of interest", insist Mes Bouzrou and Branco in their request for nullity, evoking "a violation of the rights of the defense".

Juan Branco has always maintained that he had no role in the dissemination of Griveaux's videos. LP / SA  

If this request is validated by the investigating chamber, it is the very indictment of the Russian artist that could be canceled. Pavlenski's lawyers also denounce the police surveillance to which Me Branco's office was subjected before the Russian was arrested. What they consider to be there again "a serious violation of the rights of the defense", the exchanges between a lawyer and his client being "confidential".

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Source: leparis

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