Lightened sentences on appeal for three police officers from the Paris BAC

Three police officers from the Paris Anti-Crime Brigade (BAC) were sentenced Wednesday, November 17 to suspended sentences for violence, writing false reports or undue consultation of files, penalties lightened compared to the first instance.

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The three men were part of a group of six policemen from the same team of the BAC of the 18th arrondissement of Paris, whose informal leader was a sergeant nicknamed "

".

They were all tried together at first instance in February.

Sentenced at the end of this first trial to eight years in prison for having racked up dealers, Karim M. alias "

" was acquitted on appeal in June of these facts and found only guilty of theft, forgery and laundering of tax fraud. .

He was sentenced to two years in prison on appeal but definitively barred from being a police officer.

Several convictions

Aaron B., considered his deputy and retried with him, was sentenced on appeal to six months suspended prison sentence against two years at first instance. Three other police officers were however tried separately, after these two men, and the decision concerning them was rendered Wednesday by the Court of Appeal of Paris.

Alexandre C. was sentenced to three years' suspended imprisonment as well as a three-year ban on practicing the profession of a police officer, for having committed violence in April 2019 on an arrested person and for having asserted that this man had on him two crackers and a knife that didn't belong to him.

The policeman was also convicted for having drawn up a false report on these facts.

At first instance, he had been sentenced to two years in prison, one of which was firm, with a definitive ban on practicing.

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Jean-Baptiste B., who participated in this intervention, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence for having signed the falsified PV and having participated in the confiscation of crack from another man the day before the events. . In the first instance, he was sentenced to an 18-month suspended sentence and a two-year ban on practice. Finally, Julian T., also present that day, was acquitted of the offenses of forgery of writing and transporting narcotics, and sentenced to a suspended fine of 2,000 euros for having consulted, outside the legal framework, a police file. . In February he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, of which six months were closed with a ban on practice for 5 years. The last policeman, out of the six officials tried, had been sentenced to one year suspended. He eventually withdrew his appeal.