Suspected of having set up a system of spying on agents and elected officials at the end of 2015, the former director of information systems (DSI) of the former Rhône-Alpes region will be tried on May 20, a- we learned from a judicial source, confirming information from the weekly Tribune de Lyon.
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Aged 52, now stationed in Occitania, the engineer must be tried and lifted the Lyon criminal court for "
breach of the secrecy of correspondence by telecommunication
", "
fraudulent access and maintenance in an automated processing system of data
” and “
processing of personal data without authorization
” by “
in charge of public service mission
”, according to the decision rendered in April by the Lyon public prosecutor’s office.
"Angèle's gossip"
The former IT manager is suspected of having opened for his benefit access to the mailboxes of the administration of the region, by demanding from his department and the IT service provider a search for the keyword "
dangele
" in the emails .
of the community.
It was then a question of detecting leaks intended for the former satirical weekly "
Les potins d'Angèle
", which at the time multiplied the revelations on the end of Jean-Jack Queyranne's mandate.
The former socialist president denied being aware of the system put in place in November 2015, during an intense electoral campaign before the merger of the Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes regions.
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The former DSI claimed that the search had lasted a short period, and that he had acted on the order of his hierarchical superior, the director general of services (DGS) at the time, Philippe De Mester.
Subsequently appointed prefect of the Somme and then head of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the latter disputed and affirmed to the investigators that he did not remember a such instruction.
Revealed through technical manipulation on the South union's mailbox, the case was the subject of a preliminary investigation opened in February 2017.
