Sonia Cocouard, 45, and Soufiane Ouguayour, 43, are accused of helping a drug trafficker who was also their informant. The latter had several dozen kilos of cannabis stolen.
To help him in his research, the two ex-police officers, now dismissed, had provided him with documents from police files. The two former police officers had also helped Salim Benyoub with an insurance fraud, with the arson of a vehicle, a related offense for which they are also being tried. “I was in a spiral, it was the mistake of my life,” said one of the ex-policewomen, who had entered into a sham marriage with Salim in 2009, for 20,000 euros. The prosecution requested three years in prison for the two former officers, while the judge requested a professional ban in all security professions for five years, deploring a “mixture of genres” The judge also requested a sentence of seven years for the leader of the commando, Jérémy Gerbaud, a scaffolder who claims to have turned the page on delinquency.