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Ex-policeman suspected of selling Darknet information remains at large

2020-11-28T14:47:24.745Z


The public prosecutor's office had requested the provisional detention of "Haurus", a former agent of the DGSI who sold information from


"Haurus", an ex-agent of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), who sold information on the Darknet from protected police files, remains at large.

The investigating chamber of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal confirmed, Thursday, his placement under judicial supervision while the day before, the general prosecutor's office had requested his imprisonment.

This police brigadier of an anti-terrorism unit, who is now banned from practicing, was indicted by a Marseille examining magistrate on October 17 for corruption and criminal conspiracy to commit crimes in an organized gang.

"I have totally failed in morality, I realize how much I went astray," he said Wednesday before the Court of Appeal, acknowledging having "misled his service and his colleagues who do a job extraordinary ”.

"I was in a gear"

In the Marseille section, the former police officer is suspected of having cashed in information that could have been used in the context of several settling of scores, in particular on April 5, 2018, that of a rising figure of narcobanditism shot with his lieutenant shortly after his release from prison.

"I did these things for money, I was in a gear, psychologically feverish but I was intractable on the terrorist matter," he said.

At the end of September 2018, Haurus had been remanded in custody in Fleury-Mérogis by a judge from Nanterre for selling other information on the Darknet.

He was then detained with terrorists whom he had arrested.

"If I had been ill-intentioned, I could have argued with them."

On the Darknet, place of all trafficking, he claims to have been in contact with a single interlocutor for the sale of information, the latter having been placed in detention.

Risks of revenge

Advocate General Yvon Calvet called for his detention on Wednesday in order to "avoid any consultation with other accused persons".

He also invoked the need to "protect" the former police officer whose "acts had radical and definitive consequences, relatives of the victims who may have any desire for revenge".

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Having become a funeral counselor, the former agent of the DGSI ensures "to live anonymously in the depths of a French region.

I did not speak to the media, I am trying to be forgotten ”.

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Beneficiary of a recovery plan ordered by the Bank of France in order to repay his debts, the man explained his excesses by "an unhappy relationship between 2012 and 2015" with someone "who benefited a lot" from him.

“I have a complicated relationship with money and during this relationship, I no longer paid my taxes, I accumulated a debt of 40,000 euros.

But I did not return to the DGSI to commit crimes, I invested myself in it, ”he defended himself.

Source: leparis

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