A commissioner “in shock” after the announcement, this Thursday, March 28, of the decision of the Paris Criminal Court which banned him from exercising his police duties for six months. Vincent Lafon is also sentenced to eight months in prison for having consulted confidential files. His partner, a former poker player, received six months in prison for fraud. A sentence that she will carry out under an electronic bracelet. She must also pay a fine of 2,500 euros and 3,000 euros in damages.
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Vincent Lafon, who appeared on March 14, is found guilty of having consulted confidential files of the national police. His partner pretended to be a lawyer in order to help his victim recover her driving license, by asking her for 2,800 euros in fees... in cash.
The young woman's lawyer, Me Daniel Merchat, pleaded for acquittal. “Home detention is special, she can’t go out whenever she wants,” he reacts. It's not nice for a girl to wear an electronic bracelet. I don't know yet if she will appeal. » The prosecutor had requested three years in prison against him, including two years suspended.
“An eliminatory decision by the police”
For Vincent Lafon, the prosecutor requested the definitive end to his police duties – a premature end to his career eight years before retirement – eighteen months of imprisonment and three years of deprivation of civil rights. The penalty is therefore less severe. “The outrageous requisitions were not followed but it remains an eliminatory decision by the police, which is incomprehensible,” reacts his lawyer, Me Louis Cailliez. My client is in shock. He expected to receive a sentence, but not a ban on practicing. » The commissioner therefore appeals.
Vincent Lafon was already sentenced to a ban on practicing in 2008 for "voluntary abstention from preventing a crime" in the hubcap affair, a case of police violence in which a man arrested ended up with a hubcap hoop between the buttocks. Results: a broken nose, seven days of ITT. Vincent Lafon was on the scene and let it happen. He was also stationed at the head of the Aulnay-sous-Bois police station (Seine-Saint-Denis) during the Théo affair in 2017.