The Marseille police officer was suspected of informing traffickers in the Gard for remuneration

Un policier suspecté de renseigner des bandits. ILLUSTRATION HOCINE ROUAGDIA

Un policier est visé par une enquête de la police des polices après que des policiers du Gard ont découvert des anomalies dans leurs enquêtes. Le fonctionnaire de police basé à Marseille est suspecté d'avoir consulté les fiches de recherches  de trafiquants. Explications.

The information remained secret for the purposes of the investigation but was confirmed by corroborating sources this Friday February 2, 2024.

A Marseille police officer was released in December 2023, after a period of pre-trial detention which was not specified but which lasted several weeks. The police officer, aged around forty, is  suspected of having provided elements from police files, against remuneration, and of having transmitted them to people outside the police. More seriously, the files consulted and transmitted outside would have ended up at home. a drug trafficker who allegedly paid the official on several occasions, with little regard for ethics.

Golden information for traffickers

More seriously, a suspected trafficker would have benefited from first-rate information through consultation of his file. In reality, certain elements of the wanted persons file would mention the conduct to be taken towards an individual. For example, an investigation service based in Paris can write a note on a file asking not to arrest a person, or inform the investigating service of where and at what time an individual was located. registered in the file.

Thus, if a person is reported on the file to the attention of other police officers or gendarmes, they are in theory totally unaware that they are on file and they do not must, in principle, not know the title of the file.

Hundreds of consultations by the policeman

But the interest in knowing the content of the file,  it is also to know which investigative service is the issuer of the research form and the information on the action to be taken. In other words, if a file is issued by an investigation group dedicated to drug trafficking, the trafficker will be made aware of the situation via the transmission of the contents of the file.< /p>

More prosaically, the content of the sheet  worth gold to a drug dealer who can learn the details of what's on his account, in some cases the police officer's last name. who is the issuer of the note on the file and even  the telephone number of his service.  The affair would have emerged particularly in Gard with police officers who would have discovered that a drug trafficker was the subject numerous consultations  from his research sheet.

"Criminal association, illegal consultation of files and concealed work"

According to our information, the file of this alleged trafficker would have been consulted hundreds of times and not for the needs of an ongoing investigation but apparently for the interests of the criminal who was trying to find out if the police were on his trail. The Nîmes justice system would have sent a report on the basis of the elements collected in the Gard and transmitted the file to the magistrates of the Marseille judicial court. An investigation was entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN) whose conclusions would have led to the indictment of this police officer stationed in Bouches-du-Rhône.

The man had a management position and not in the field and had no reason to do so. consult the file of people wanted in such significant proportions. His ethical obligations prohibit him  to consult and transmit  the content of the files and the penal code too. Because his multiple consultations were clearly paid, perhaps several hundred euros per transmission of a file. The case gave rise to the indictment of the police officer for "illegal consultation of files, criminal association and concealed work", a  confirmed this Friday evening a Marseille judicial source. In addition to his consultations, the forty-year-old is suspected of having exercised an activity outside his profession as a police officer.

The case illuminated by the arrest of a drug trafficker with 8 kg of coke

In December 2023,  one of the contacts of the police officer to whom he is suspected of having transmitted  files concerning him on several occasions, was targeted and arrested by Gard police and by customs during a shipment of cocaine from Spain.

Investigators seized nearly 9 kg of coke and arrested four suspects including   privileged contact of the Marseille police officer. Which illustrates the traffic level of this   individual. On the one hand, the suspected traffickers were placed in detention after their indictment in Nîmes and on the other, the police officer was released in December after a period of detention provisional. Investigations are underway.

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