A former adviser to François Hollande and two police commissioners. The cast of the case clashes. On December 20, the Paris public prosecutor's office requested a trial for breach of professional secrecy and the complicity of Faouzi Lamdaoui, a former equal opportunities adviser at the Elysée Palace between 2012 and 2014, and two police officers, for their alleged involvement in an unpleasant attempt at manipulation, as revealed by Letter A. It is now up to the investigating judge to seize or not the criminal court.
The story begins in November 2015 when Mohamed Belaid, the former driver of Faouzi Lamdaoui, is alerted by a journalist who has just found in his mailbox a curious email from November 30, 2012. The message, sent by a fictitious surname, disparages Mohamed Belaid and contains, as an attachment, its STIC sheet (system for dealing with reported infringements). However, access to this file, which lists information on those arrested, is solely the responsibility of the police. Its possession and, even more its dissemination, is very supervised.
The former driver then files a complaint with the IGPN. At the time, in 2012, Mohamed Belaid and Faouzi Lamdaoui were at loggerheads and only communicated by reciprocal complaints. The complainant is persuaded to see the hand of his former employer behind this "site". Investigators also note that the sending of this email corresponds to a period when several press organs publish articles on these legal proceedings.
"The theory of the loss of the STIC file not plausible"
The investigations made it possible to trace the circuit of this sheet. It was published on the morning of November 30 at the police station in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, at the request of Commissioner Dominique Serniclay. The latter, who had heard Faouzi Lamdaoui the previous weeks, explains that he asked for this famous file as part of the case he had to deal with. He indicates that it was then possible to steal him.
However, for the prosecution, these explanations do not hold water. Thus, the judicial matter in question was, on that date, closed. "The theory of the loss of the STIC card is also not plausible in view of the fact that he had telephone contact with Faouzi Lamdaoui in connection with the investigation carried out by the IGPN on these facts", develops the parquet.
"The position of the public prosecutor is not supported," objects Mr. Yves Claisse, the lawyer for the commissioner. The extraction of the file does not constitute proof of the transmission. As for reproaching my client for his explanations, I remind you that it is not for him to prove his innocence. "
A second dissemination of information on Belaid
During their investigation, the police gathered certain clues linking Faouzi Lamdaoui to this file. Thus, his numerous telephone exchanges with the sender of the email - identified as being one of his relatives - at the time of the latter's convocation by the IGPN. Troubling, but not sufficient clues for the prosecution, which points out "the absence of elements formally demonstrating that he [Faouzi Lamdaoui] gave an order for the purpose of distributing this sheet".
The former Elysian adviser, converted at Veolia, is however hooked in a second part of the case. In the fall of 2015, Mohamed Belaid noted that messages were posted on Twitter describing a psychiatric assessment of which he had been the subject two years earlier, in the context of a dispute related to Faouzi Lamdaoui. Again, the goal is to discredit it.
No one says no to the President’s adviser
The investigation made it possible to demonstrate that Faouzi Lamdaoui had obtained this expertise - resulting from a legal procedure and covered by medical confidentiality - in the spring of 2015 from Abdelhafid Chraiet, the former commissioner of Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise ), the city from which he was elected. The former adviser to François Hollande admitted having asked for this expertise, arguing that he had been the subject of death threats and that he wanted to use it to request police protection.
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As for the commissioner, who left the police three years ago, he first invoked political pressure to justify this transmission before specifying "when the adviser to the President of the Republic asks you for help, we do not say not no ". Solicited, Me Xavier Odino, the lawyer of Abdelhafid Chraiet, intends to "reserve [his] explanations for the investigating judge".
Faouzi Lamdaoui's explanations have not convinced the prosecution, which considers him "accomplice by instigation" of the violation of professional secrecy alleged against ex-Commissioner Chraiet. "There is no evidence of the manifest danger posed by Mr. Belaid at the time of this transmission," emphasizes the indictment rather makes a link between the exhumation of this expertise and his trial for forgery and use of forgery and abuse of corporate property d 'October 2005 - a case which ended in his release. “My client was under threat and had no protection, maintains his lawyer, Jean-Pierre Mignard. This may justify why he wanted to know what this expertise contained. "
