“luxury stays and gifts in exchange for information and services”: the former number two of the PJ Lyon Michel Neyret appear on Monday for “corruption” alongside eight other defendants before the criminal court of Paris. He who walked for twenty years the prestigious anti-gang brigade of Lyon is also suspected of having obtained or attempted to obtain cannabis from seizures to reward informants.
The question ambiguous relations between police and “snitches” will be center stage, Michel Neyret which justified its practices by the desire “to get results (thanks) to an information collection offensive policy that underpinned the existence of high-informants level. ” And in fact, during his thirty-two year career, policeman, adored his teams and his superiors, has increased the performance in sensitive investigations against robbers, drug traffickers or terrorists who built his legend and have him earned the Legion of Honour.
the honor of the police
Ironically, one of his feats was the arrest in 1990 of a criminal gang-ridden ripoux cops. He represented then the honor of the police. But September 29, 2011, everything changed when arrested at his home with his wife by the police fonts. Indicted for corruption, will be imprisoned eight months before being dismissed from the police and the retired.
On Monday, the divisional former commissioner, accustomed courtroom where he often presented the results of its investigations, will be found this time on the dock. Prosecuted for eight offenses, including corruption and passive influence peddling and embezzlement of narcotic sealed, he faces 10 years in prison and fined 7.5 million euros.
“The handcuffs Commissioner “
Among the eight other defendants: his wife Nicole, the former head of the Grenoble branch of the PJ Christophe Gavat, and two former” DEA “of Lyon, Jean-Paul and Marty Gilles Guillotin. Three suspected members of the Lyon environment, Gilles Benichou, his cousin Stéphane Alzraa and Cyril Astruc, will also be assessed, and a lawyer, David Metaxas. Stéphane Alzraa, on the run, will be represented by David Olivier Kaminski.
Neyret case began in February 2011 Listens carried out an investigation on drug seizure in Paris. The police flabbergasted when they hear a stranger, they identify as Gilles Benichou, known for scams business, boast in his pocket a police laying Michel Neyret. The inquest will show that the police intervened several times in favor of Benichou and his family, including Alzraa and Astruc. The police provided them with confidential information and did not hesitate to plead their case with colleagues and judges.
Watches prices
According to the prosecution, the former super cop would have received in exchange for stays in Morocco and on the French Riviera in luxurious hotels, prices of watches and cash transfers, before the creation of a Swiss company in the name of his wife with a account in Dubai where he should receive commissions, according to Gilles Benichou. A contested by Neyret release that highlights its desire to obtain information and friendship that bound him to Benichou. But who manipulated the other?
To prove to one of his contacts how he held the commissioner Benichou had proposed to send a photo taken on the set of the film by Olivier Marchal ” Lyon “, where Neyret Benichou and intervened, telling the journalist Richard Schittly in a book about the case. The cliché represented disguised as police informer being fun to handcuff the Commissioner. “That Michel Neyret has committed blunders, imprudence, that’s undeniable,” concedes his lawyer Gabriel Versini, while disputing that “these are sources of offenses.” It calls for “silence the facade of hypocrisy” on the old police practices. The trial is expected until May 24
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