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Investigation into Franco-Israeli hacker Ulcan resumes after Supreme Court ruling

2021-11-23T19:34:50.815Z


The Paris Court of Appeal referred to the examining magistrate the case of the Franco-Israeli hacker Ulcan, whose referral to the Assizes for a deadly hoax ...


The Paris Court of Appeal referred to the examining magistrate the case of the Franco-Israeli hacker Ulcan, whose referral to the assizes for a deadly hoax was canceled by the Court of Cassation for procedural reasons, AFP learned from corroborating sources.

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In a judgment dated November 18, which AFP was aware of, the investigating chamber of the court of appeal quashed an arrest warrant that had been issued in 2015 against the hacker installed in Israel, whose real name is Grégory Chelli. She also quashed several other documents in the case, including Ulcan's indictment order issued in June 2019, and referred the rest of the proceedings to the investigating judge to resume his investigations.

In the summer of 2014, Ulcan, already known for the extreme hoaxes of its “

ViolVocal

” site, had twice targeted the parents of a journalist from Rue89, Benoît Le Corre.

Hacking their lines, the activist had made them believe in the death of their son.

Then, he had passed himself off to the police as an entrenched man who had killed his wife and baby, giving the address of the journalist's parents.

About twenty police officers surrounded the house at 4.30 am.

Four days later, the journalist's father suffered a heart attack and died a month and a half later.

"The case is far from over"

On June 19, 2019, an examining magistrate had decided to send the hacker to the assizes for "

willful violence with premeditation resulting in death without intention to give it

" and for several offenses related to the harassment of other victims. But in December 2020, the Court of Cassation, seized by the hacker, referred the case to the investigating chamber. She considered that the judge could not “

issue an arrest warrant against a person residing outside the territory of the Republic, but who is not on the run, without having taken the necessary steps to hear him and without having appreciated the necessary and proportionate nature of this measure

".

However, the defense stressed that the address of Grégory Chelli was known to the courts, which had questioned him in Israel in July 2015 in another investigation.

"

I welcome the fact that the investigating chamber followed the Court of Cassation which had stigmatized the absence of any honest and loyal investigation on this file

", declared to AFP Me Gilles-William Goldnadel, lawyer of Gregory Chelli.

On the resumption of the investigations, he considered that the question of the “

prescription

” could arise.

"

The case is far from over, and in any case, from my point of view, Grégory Chelli will benefit from immunity by fleeing abroad,

" said the lawyer for the Le family. Corre, Me Antoine Comte.

Source: lefigaro

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