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Dawes case: the dangerous liaisons between thugs and lawyers

2023-02-03T18:24:33.162Z


STORY – They are at the heart of the trial, in Paris, which led two tenors of the criminal bar to the dock. Jail was required.


Like a film that chooses to kill the plot from the first images, the prosecution had warned: "

The requisitions for sentences will be severe, they will contain imprisonment for the four defendants

", because "

it is the act of judging who has been wronged

”.

Thursday evening, after three weeks of a long and tedious trial, a deaf rumor invaded the 11th correctional chamber of the Paris judicial court, at the announcement of the sentences required against Joseph Cohen-Sabban, 68, one of the tenors of the criminal bar, historical lawyer of organized crime, and Xavier Nogueras, lawyer specialized in terrorism.

They are being prosecuted for violation of professional secrecy and complicity in an attempted fraud in judgment.

For the first, the prosecution has indeed requested three years in prison, one of which is suspended, and five years of prohibition to practice and, for the second, two years, of which one is suspended, and five years of prohibition to practice. exercise with provisional execution.

A quasi-condemnation to no longer practice...

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Source: lefigaro

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