Paris (AFP) – The Paris PJ splashed by a new scandal: his boss was in custody Wednesday on suspicion of violating the secrecy of an investigation involving the former head of the GIGN Christian Prouteau and ” Rogue stars “Christophe Rocancourt.
” If after these custody, it appears that deficiencies have been committed by police officers or former police officers, I will be absolutely firm and I will be intractable, “warned the closed face, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace after the cabinet meeting.
He had just announced, without elaboration, that “police” and “former policemen” had been taken into custody by the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) for “suspected leaks in the context of a criminal investigation “.
In all, four people were taken into custody Tuesday and Wednesday at the premises of the” police of the police. “
Among them are the boss of the PJ Bernard Petit Paris and his chief of staff Richard Atlan has-been learned from sources close to the case. The others are Joaquin Masanet, retired police union, near the left and current president of the National Welfare Association (Anas) personal room Beauvau, and another member of this organization.
According to a judicial source, they are heard as part of a criminal investigation for “breach of confidentiality of investigations” and “disclosure of information on an instruction to a person likely to be covered by this investigation “
-. umpteenth scandal at ’36′ –
This survey is a corruption case involving Christophe Rocancourt, indicted in October and jailed for fraud in particular, active trading in influence and money laundering tax evasion. His companion, one of his lawyers Marcel Ceccaldi, the founder of Christian Prouteau GIGN, notary and former Secretary of State Socialist Kofi Yamgnane also indicted in the case.
In this case, the judges suspect the “rogue stars” of trying, against payment, to regularize undocumented.
According to sources close to the investigation for violating the confidentiality of instruction, in custody are believed to have “filled” Christian Prouteau before his arrest early October.
This is the former policeman himself had said during his detention custody, that he would be heard. “These words have pushed” the investigating judges “to apply for additional indictment for violation of the secrecy of the investigation,” said one of these sources.
Numerous telephone calls were spotted by investigators the day before and the day after the detention of Christian Prouteau between elite ex-policeman, on one hand, and Bernard Petit, Richard Atlan, Joaquin Masanet and close to the latter, on the other .
The searches were conducted at the Anas and at 36, quai des Goldsmiths mythical seat of the Paris PJ, already shaken in recent months by several scandals. In July, 52 kilograms of cocaine were stolen and never found it, even if the suspicions concern a former member of the drug squad.
Another case had tarnished the image of the ” 36 “in April, where a Canadian tourist had filed a complaint, claiming to have been raped. Two Gang’s police officers were indicted for gang rape.
Bernard Petit, 59, a former inspector who rose through the ranks of the police hierarchy, had himself taken the lead Paris PJ in December 2013 after a previous scandal.
His predecessor Christian Flaesch had been dismissed for “lack of ethics” because of a call to Brice Hortefeux in which had been referred to a hearing as a witness to the former minister of the right.
The current head of the PJ was named by Manuel Valls, the then Minister of the Interior.
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