Four police officers from the Stains anti-crime brigade, in Seine-Saint-Denis, were given sentences ranging from 6 to 30 months in prison, suspended. They were tried for having stolen from dealers, made false reports and used police files fraudulently.
In the case of the “ripoux” of the BAC of Stains, the sentences pronounced by the court of Bobigny on Thursday were less severe than the requisitions. Four police officers were sentenced, with sentences ranging from 6 to 30 months in prison, suspended. And of the six officials prosecuted in total, one was released and the last will be retried in June.
The main defendant who calls himself “Stifler”, a brigadier, was given a 30-month suspended prison sentence. Dismissed from the police in 2018, he had been detained for two and a half months. During the trial, the prosecutor had requested against him three years in prison, including 18 months, as well as a ban on practicing in the police.
Two police officers and a judicial police officer, aged 38 to 49, were given suspended sentences ranging from six to 24 months.
Justice accused the defendants of having – to varying degrees – “targeted people” engaging in drug trafficking in order to steal and resell their merchandise, between 2014 and March 2015. The officials also carried out searches outside the legal framework, fraudulently used police files, but also erased evidence.
According to Me Marie-Hélène Fabiani, the main defendant’s lawyer, her client was “not a rascal“. “Eight years after the fact, we realize that they had just done their job with a little too much zeal“, she claimed. “There were mistakes and they were condemned for it, she also said. They wanted to get good deals with pressure from their hierarchy. My client can finally turn the page.“
According to a judicial source, if the investigation had shown that “the money has flowed“, for the financing of the lifestyle of the six police officers, “no material element has established personal enrichment“. This case had shaken the Paris police headquarters, the jurisdiction of the PP extending to the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. Of the six officials prosecuted, three were dismissed.
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