In 2014, Christophe Rocancourt was tapped.
This man, who claims to have since found the right path, was then to trickery what Stakhanov was to coal mining.
The interception of his communications provoked a chain reaction and, ultimately, the fall of one of the most powerful police officers in France: Bernard Petit, boss of the Parisian PJ, whose office is still at 36, quai des Orfèvres .
His chief of staff, Richard Atlan, also falls.
Several personalities are caught in the turmoil, including the former "super-policeman" Christian Prouteau, the former Secretary of State Kofi Yamgnane, and the former strongman of police unionism, Joaquin Masanet
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After three weeks of debates before the 11th correctional chamber of Paris, chaired by Benjamin Blanchet, the balloon was partially deflated.
On Monday, the prosecution requested the release for MM.
Petit and Atlan, on the grounds that there is no evidence to prove - to put it mildly - that they delivered…
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