This time, the verdict has not leaked before. It is almost 11 p.m. Friday at the Paris Court of Appeal, when Xaviere Siméoni, the president of the Assize Court, arrives followed by two magistrate advisers and nine masked jurors, health crisis requires. The trial lasted nine days, the deliberation twelve hours. Two of the six defendants are acquitted, another sentence is slightly reduced but for the other three, it is the blow of the club.
The sentences range from 9 to 15 years, sweeping the acquittals rendered in Bobigny in February 2019 in a suspicious climate. The epilogue of an extraordinary judicial soap opera, revealed in the columns of Le Parisien last September?
“I am at peace. Justice has restored my dignity to me, and my children will not think that I am a liar ”reacts Petit-Père. According to his lawyer, Me Mallet, he will “finally be able to rebuild himself”. This former publishing worker, now aged 50, was kidnapped and tortured after the disappearance of a cargo of at least 70 kg of grass (300,000 euros for purchase, 700,000 euros for expected benefit) near the Pont de Bondy, in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), in 2014.
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No one had believed that he had been held up by making a hook to take a rail of coke at Philippe’s (the first name has been changed), a friend who lives in Villepinte. Philippe was also tortured. Mutilated but alive, Petit Père ended up giving himself up to the police, very far from Paris, where he still lives in hiding.
An investigation for corruption of jurors still ongoing
In France and Spain, heads have fallen. And on wiretaps, the investigators of the PJ of 93, heard about this sequestration, this “crazy”, “very dirty”, in a HLM of Aulnay. A trafficking trial took place in 2018, with sentences of up to 7 years in prison. And the following year, some of the protagonists were tried at the assizes for torture, with endless twists and turns. A juror leaked the verdict to relatives of the defendants, and a jury corruption investigation is still ongoing.
“It’s a team united around a common, lucrative drug trafficking project,” said Rémi Crosson du Cormier, the attorney general in Paris. Who other than the investors aggrieved by the disappearance of the drug could have imagined this sequestration?
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Given the sentences handed down, the court also followed this reasoning, by again condemning those who had already been condemned for trafficking this Friday. Mohamed Chekroun, sponsor, arrived from Spain once the sequestration began, and who has always refused to pull the strings, was sentenced to 12 years (instead of 7 in Bobigny).
The court pardoned Boubakari Ba (sentenced to 13 years instead of 14) for one year, the only one to recognize his active participation, without being able to name his accomplices. From one trial to the next, the lines of defense have changed little. In Bobigny, it was he who had received the heaviest penalty, 14 years old. “Justice is waiting for the perpetrators to take responsibility for their actions, and must take them into account” pleaded his lawyer Me Le Hir.
The recidivism was held against all
No acquittal this time for Stéphane Lalami, nicknamed the Doctor, in reference to the rapper Dr. Dre, sentenced to 9 years for complicity in kidnapping and failure to help the victims.
Maximum penalty finally, against Afif Ben Hadj Brahim, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He too had been acquitted at Bobigny. “It is not me, sincerely Gentlemen, I did nothing to you, it is not for me to pay”, had repeated this father, literally KO by the verdict. The recidivism was held against all. “We’re stunned, we don’t understand this decision, who could? “Reacted his lawyers Mes Breham and Saidi-Cottier, who denounced the” bewildering approximations “of this investigation, where” Afo “was named on several occasions.
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“The absence of material evidence, the sum of the elements of the investigation and the wiretapping are evidence,” said the Advocate General. He was also responsible for reminding the jurors of the ongoing affair for corruption of jurors, with this internal note from the president of the Bobigny Assize Court, Philippe Jean-Draeher, who described the acquittals as “totally unfounded”.
“The truth, you will never get it”
So inevitably, one can not help but wonder if this affair in the affair, still not finished and which implicates close relations of “Afo” in particular, weighed? “I beg you, you must deliver us from this screed, which consists in making you believe that these acquittals have been stolen, bought, soiled!” “Urged Me Tymoczko, defender of the one who provided the keys to the apartment to the torturers and whose voice the victim recognized.
He confirmed his acquittal on appeal, as did his ex-girlfriend, the tenant of the apartment where the sequestration took place. “The truth, you will never have it”, had slipped in the court Me Karsenti, the lawyer of the tenant. Six years later, it is still unclear who diverted the drugs.
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