A false lawyer who had been unmasked in full hearing before the court of Cusset (Allier) in January 2021 appeared Thursday before this same court where he is also tried for identical acts committed in other jurisdictions.
The 37-year-old man is being prosecuted for
"illegal exercise of the profession of lawyer"
and
"repeat fraud".
Thursday at the helm, arms crossed, plaid shirt and black pants, Sébastien Buisson said
"fight his demons":
"I feel ashamed to find myself in front of you.
I have an all-consuming passion for the law through reading.
I found myself playing a role that I do not have.
One year in prison required
"It's hard to believe in the devouring passion"
replied the president of the court Aurélie Mahé, before detailing the content of his criminal record which mentions eleven convictions: theft, counterfeiting, fraud, driving without a license, etc. .
"If you hadn't been arrested, you would have continued to practice as a lawyer
," she said.
“Given the facts and his personality”
, prosecutor Marine Mercier requested one year in prison and a ban on exercising a commercial, industrial profession for 15 years.
His lawyer Me Olivier Roquain pleaded for release on the fact of fraud:
“four people confirm that he did not commit this act for the money”
.
"He likes this profession of lawyer because he rubbed shoulders with them, he said to himself 'this profession is magnificent'",
he underlined.
Judgment was reserved for December 22.
On January 21, 2021, the “atypical”
behavior
of this man who defended two victims of a scam and had taken selfies before the Cusset court with his two clients, had intrigued the magistrates.
A few quick checks had made it possible to confuse him and challenge him.
The investigation made it possible to establish that he had also pleaded during a hearing before the judicial court of Saint-Brieuc on January 18, 2021 and before that of Toulouse on January 6, 2021. He was already indicted and under control court in another fraud case, suspected of having embezzled nearly 260,000 euros between 2014 and 2018 to the detriment of the charity association "Les Nez rouges, clown et artistes à l'Hôpital", based in Limoges, that