The criminal court of Créteil sentenced this Wednesday, January 11 for corruption a former director of detention of the prison of Fresnes to four years of imprisonment and the former businessman Arnaud Mimran, former resident of the establishment, to two years in prison.
Then head of division 3 of the penitentiary center of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), the guard Khalid El Khal, 53, was found guilty of passive corruption and criminal association for having received money in exchange for benefits granted to three prison inmates from January 2016 to March 2018, including the highly publicized Arnaud Mimran.
Khalid El Khal was sentenced to four years' imprisonment with a deferred committal order, which means that the former official will receive a summons from the prosecutor later regarding his incarceration.
The court also ordered a permanent ban from public service and the confiscation of the sums seized.
The court in a delicate situation
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We will appeal.
The severity of this judgment justifies the request for expatriation that we made at the start of the investigation.
The Créteil court could not calmly judge a detention director of the prison under its jurisdiction
, ”reacted his lawyers Mes Philippe Ohayon, Paul Aprile and Vera Goguidze.
Arnaud Mimran, who has been in legal trouble since his conviction in 2016 in a carbon tax fraud, was sentenced to two years in prison with continued detention and a fine of 100,000 euros.
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He was not taken from his cell on Wednesday morning and was therefore absent from the defendants' box when the deliberations were announced.
The former detention director is suspected in particular of having played a role in his transfer to Le Havre prison, in addition to other advantages in detention.
Other favorable detention regimes
In addition to Arnaud Mimran, Fabrice Touil, another actor in the carbon tax scam, was sentenced by the court to four years' imprisonment with an arrest warrant for having benefited, against payment, from a favorable detention regime during his stay in Fresnes.
He was absent for the entire trial in November.
The third detainee, Eric Robic, a Frenchman who killed an Israeli woman in Tel Aviv in 2011 in a car accident before fleeing, was released.
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I congratulate the criminal court for its perfect understanding of the file
", greeted his lawyer Samuel Habib.
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