At the start of the year, in the columns of Le Monde, Agnès Thibault-Lecuivre, magistrate at the head of the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) revealed her concern about a problem increasingly present in the ranks of the national police: corruption.
“We are witnessing the emergence of a new phenomenon: the illegal consultation of files, with great ease for certain police officers who, from home, without ever having a physical meeting with the corrupter, offer the sale of files on messaging services Telegram type,” explained Gérald Darmanin’s former deputy chief of staff.
This observation has just been verified by the gendarmes of the Paris research section.
On the sidelines of a major investigation into a team suspected of spraying the Paris region with cannabis, they were traced to a police officer and an administrative agent stationed in a police station.
Two officials who had close ties with traffickers.
Like twelve other people suspected of belonging to this network, the two officials were placed in police custody this Tuesday morning as part of a judicial investigation led by a Parisian investigating judge for almost a year.
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