* Bernard Petit was immediately suspended by the Minister of Interior
* The predecessor of the head of the PJ was sacked
* Three scandals splashed PJ less than a year (update with indictments)
PARIS, Feb. 6 (Reuters) – The head of the Paris police, Bernard Petit, was indicted Thursday for violating the confidentiality of instruction and put on probation and prohibited from performing his duties, has-been learned from the floor.
It is also accused of the facts “information about an instruction revelation in order to impede the progress of the investigation or of the truth ‘.
His chief of staff, Richard Atlan, was also indicted.
In a statement, the Minister of the Interior, Bernard Cazeneuve, “takes note” of the indictment of the head of 36th Precinct and announced his suspension with immediate effect.
“The ethical conduct should suffer any failure, “says Bernard Cazeneuve, which” reaffirms its determination to punish all the individual behaviors that are likely to cast aspersions on the National Police and his loyalty to the judicial authority. “
Bernard Petit is believed to have passed to the founder of the GIGN Christian Prouteau information on the investigation of which he is the object under influence peddling file to a man already involved in several cases fraud in the United States and France, Christophe Rocancourt
This case is the third to splash the famous Parisian PJ in less than a year after the alleged rape of a Canadian tourist in the premises of Research and Intervention Brigade in April and stealing 52 kilograms of cocaine in sealed three months later.
In 2013, another case had already shaken the “36″ when Christian Flaesch , the predecessor of Bernard Petit, had been dismissed for having phoned former Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux to announce that he was to be summoned as a witness in a case related to Nicolas Sarkozy.
In the recent case, Christophe Rocancourt is accused of extorting thousands of euros in two Moroccan sisters threatened with eviction against the promise of regularization. The two women saw nothing coming, filed complaints.
According to a source close to the investigation, the alleged con man, indicted on October 9, said he approached Christian Prouteau and former Secretary of the Socialist State for Social Affairs and Integration (1991-1993) Kofi Yamgnane.
First, he has told investigators, had to intervene with the Commissioner of Police and the second to the Minister of the Interior. Both were also indicted.
The links between Christian Prouteau and the boss of the PJ were highlighted by wiretaps, says Le Monde on Friday. (Jean-Baptiste Vey and Gerard Bon, edited by Henri-Pierre André)
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