Dear readers,
This week, we would like to bring to your attention a drug trafficking case.
But not just any.
In this vast network suspected of having imported several tonnes of cannabis into France from Spain, the gendarmerie has identified a police officer.
This peacekeeper was arrested last Tuesday at his police station in Vitry-sur-Seine, in Val-de-Marne.
He is suspected of having sold confidential information on vehicles or people contained in police files to a friend.
A source close to the investigation indicates to Le
Figaro
that “
hundreds of passages”
in these files were recorded.
This information was then transmitted through an intermediary to the traffickers in the network.
While appearing to reduce the amount required during the transactions, the peacekeeper admitted the facts to investigators.
He justified his act by the lure of profit: “
He got into a trap, it allowed him to make ends meet
,” comments our source.
He only seems to have realized his error once he was taken into police custody.
“
Before his arrest, he did not ask questions about the fate of these files, or did not want to ask them
.”
He was indicted and placed under judicial supervision this Saturday.
Fourteen other people suspected of being involved in the network were also indicted: eleven were placed in pre-trial detention, three under judicial supervision.
A POLICE OFFICER CONNECTED WITH TRAFFICKERS
In the rest of the current news…
A Parisian lawyer and her brother suspected of having killed a member of their family
A body was found on a disused track, near a railway, in the hamlet of Mas-Neuf on November 24, 2023. Google Maps
This is a criminal case that is still in its early stages.
But the gendarmes from the Mende research brigade, in Lozère, already seem to have identified two main suspects, whose exact roles have yet to be defined.
On Wednesday, a Parisian lawyer was indicted and placed under judicial supervision by a Nîmes investigating judge for the murder of her half-brother, Henri D. Her older brother, Gilles N., is also being prosecuted for the same facts but was placed in pre-trial detention.
Between lies and enigmatic messages, the investigation still conceals many mysteries.
A missing element seems essential to advance the investigations: finding the place where the crime was committed.
DISCOVER OUR STORY
In Paris, the hell of a Jewish man chased by a “childhood friend”
Arthur (first name has been changed) and Manuel have known each other since they were children.
But their friendship was shattered when the second attacked the first because of his religion.
“You dirty Jewish pig, go hide before it's too late”
,
“I'll end up burying you dirty dog”
,
“if a big loser buffoon had to be defined by a face man, it would be your dirty Jewish face”
, can we read among countless messages that we have been able to consult.
Vile comments aimed at Arthur are also written on public pages and groups on Facebook.
“I could receive up to 20 messages a day.
As soon as I blocked him, he would create a new account.
He also created fake accounts bearing my image with the faces of people with Down syndrome
,” says Arthur, who suffered anti-Semitic insults and death messages for months.
Until the attempted murder.
ARTHUR’S TESTIMONY
“The bullet went through my pillow”: in Alain Delon, the passion for weapons and shooting behind the walls of Douchy
Alain Delon in the film “For the Skin of a Cop” in 1981. Adel Productions / Diltz / Bridgeman Images
Far from hiding it, Alain Delon has made his weapons, just like his works of art, a singular and assumed passion throughout his career.
The recent seizure of 72 firearms and 3,000 rounds of ammunition in Douchy, his property in Loiret, today brings to light a side of the actor, sometimes a cop, sometimes a thug, who accumulated calibers with fervor, through meetings and filming.
“It’s a fascination that he has cultivated since well before his career in cinema
,” says a close source, who cites his childhood in a house adjoining the Fresnes prison, then his years spent as a soldier in Indochina.
AT ALAIN DELON, A PASSION FOR WEAPONS
Why the Pierre Palmade affair could lead to an upheaval in the criminal definition of life
On a departmental road in Seine-et-Marne, on February 10, 2023, Pierre Palmade collided with a vehicle coming on the opposite lane.
In addition to the 54-year-old comedian, the accident left three seriously injured: a man, his young son and his sister-in-law, who lost the baby she was expecting at seven months pregnant.
The unborn child was declared viable but was not born alive.
Conclusions which deprive it of legal status.
In principle, the qualification
of “involuntary manslaughter”
could therefore not be accepted.
The public prosecutor of Melun, however, deviated from the rule and requested on March 4 the referral of Pierre Palmade to court for "
aggravated homicide and involuntary injuries
", considering that there is "
a direct causal link and certain between the public road accident suffered by [the child’s mother] and the death of her child]
.”
OUR DECRYPTION
“She wanted to make him suffer”: the assassination attempt of a couple attracted by “the morbid, the gore, the bloody”
Alexandre P. is on trial for “attempted assassination” before the Nancy Assize Court.
Francesca Protopapa for Le Figaro
On September 21, 2020, a naked and bloodied man appeared under the halo of a street lamp in Pont-à-Mousson, in Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Looking haggard, he holds his right hand against him,
“severed from the middle of the fingers to the wrist”.
Lying on the ground, almost unconscious, the victim with multiple gaping wounds whispers to passers-by who came to help him:
“They’re crazy!”
Four years later, Adrien H. retains the physical and psychological scars of the violent attack he suffered but says he is ready to
“confront the one who wanted to end his life”
, tells Le
Figaro
his lawyer, Me Alexandre Bouthier .
The trial for
“attempted assassination”
opens this Monday at the Nancy Assizes.
In the accused box, Alexandre P., 30 years old, will appear alone.
His girlfriend Cloé T., who was also to be expelled for these facts, committed suicide in her cell at the Epinal remand center on May 2, 2021.
STORY OF AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION
Yesterday's fact
Le Figaro
of March 12, 1974 Archives
50 years ago, in Ecquevilly in Yvelines, a madman killed himself after killing four people.
This is then the first intervention of the newly created GIGN.
On Sunday March 10, 1974, Santo Grasso, a worker of Italian origin, overcome by uncontrolled fury, shot and killed a couple of neighbors whom he considered too noisy in Villennes-sur-Seine.
He then sought refuge with a family he knew well and who lived in an HLM building in Ecquevilly.
He takes the mother and one of her four children, aged 7, hostage.
The very agitated man begins negotiations with the mobilized police and gendarmerie forces.
The siege lasted a whole night and a day when the hostages were believed to be alive.
When the assault was launched on Monday evening, the elite police discovered the bodies of the mother and the little boy shot the day before.
Santo Grasso was shot in the head.
Fortunately, underlines today Ignace Wodecki, first group leader of the GIGN, because he and his men had no other protection
“than a simple gas mask”
.
By our journalist Camille Lestienne.
On the agenda
Monday March 11:
Alexandre P. is tried before the Nancy Assize Court for an attempted murder of Adrien H., his girlfriend's lover.
The couple had hatched a sordid plan to trap their victim.
Alexandre P. faces life imprisonment.
He will appear alone.
His girlfriend Cloé T., who was also to be expelled for these facts, committed suicide in her cell at the Epinal remand center on May 2, 2021.
Monday March 11:
trial of the attack against police officers in Colombes in 2020. On April 27, radicalized Islamist Youssef Tihlah drove into civil servants in this Hauts-de-Seine town, seriously injuring two officers.
He will appear before the Paris Special Assize Court until March 15 and faces life imprisonment.
Wednesday March 13:
two members of the far-right fundamentalist party Civitas are tried in Lorient for violence during a concert in a church in Carnac.
On Saturday May 13, 2023, they blocked access to Saint-Cornély church in order to prevent the concert by musician Kali Malone from taking place.
To read
Lawyer specializing in criminal law, Me Caty Richard publishes “Crimes, misdemeanors and broken lives” (Albin Michel, 2024).
Elsa Cadiou
Le Figaro
recommends the book by criminal lawyer Caty Richard,
“Crimes, misdemeanors and broken lives”,
published last January by Albin Michel.
For thirty years, the lawyer has examined, through the analysis of criminal cases, the underbelly of the judicial system as well as the failings of our society.
In this work, Me Caty Richard - whose name remains linked to the cases of the rapist of the Sambre, the Bluebeard of Essonne or even Jonathann Daval - recounts the exercise of his profession, his empathy with the victims and his search for understanding of the culprits.
INTERVIEW WITH MASTER CATY RICHARD
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Ambre Lepoivre, news journalist at Le
Figaro
.