An essential crime fiction character, the crooked lawyer makes a much less common defendant in reality.
Imposing in his navy suit jacket, his tanned complexion bordered by graying curls, AA, a lawyer at the Paris bar, is not an actor.
The Paris criminal court judged him this Friday March 1 for “breach of trust” over his own clients.
In 2022, he defrauded them out of 187,000 euros, using a financing scheme that left his victims accusing each other.
Marine
(first name has been changed)
had to fight for months to exonerate herself.
“When she explained that she had been robbed by her lawyer, no one believed her,” says Me Laure Boutron-Marmion, who defended her at the hearing.
When the young thirty-year-old and her ex-partner decided to sell their catering company in September 2021, it was obvious: AA would take care of everything.
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