Condemned for “Recel of trusted abuse”, the alleged ex-chief of the FLNC should not go to prison, the sentence pronounced being “immediately convertible”.
Le Monde with AFP
Charles Pieri, a historical and controversial activist of the Corsican Independent Cause, was sentenced to six months in prison and 5,000 euros of fine Tuesday, October 19 in Bastia, for benefiting from “graceful” car rentals. Sentenced for “concealment of trusted abuse”, the former head of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), should not go to prison, the sentence pronounced being “immediately convertible”.
At the hearing on 21 September, before the Criminal Court of Bastia, the Prosecutor Arnaud Viornerry had required one year in prison and 10,000 euros of fine against Mr. Pieri, “in view of His participation but also of his locker well provided “. He had not presented at the hearing, for health reasons.
“We will appeal this decision,” said France-Presse M e Marc-Antoine Luca, one of Mr. Pieri’s councils, who had pleaded the Relaxed.
A search at the end of May 2019 in the premises of Filippi Auto, Car rental agency HERTZ at Bastia-Portetta airport, had allowed the seizure of “21 vehicle rental contracts in the name From Charles Pieri, subscribed between May 22, 2017 and May 22, 2019, without the corresponding invoices being established and recorded in accounting, “said Caroline Tharot, the prosecutor of the time.
One year in prison had been required
Two rental agency employees, the operating manager and the account manager, judged for abuse of confidence, were sentenced, respectively, at 3,000 euros fine and 3,000 euros of fine with reprieve. The Prosecutor had required one year of suspended prison and € 10,000 in a fine of the first and a fine of 5,000 euros against the second. Their lawyers had also pleaded the relaxed.
pointing the gap between the convictions of “principal authors” and that of the “simple remembrance”, M e Eric Barbolosi, other Council of Mr. Pieri, said that it showed that the decision is “only motivated by the will to condemn again heavily Charles Pieri”.
During his custody, the billing officer had explained to have “put on hold the settlement of the bills” of Mr. Pieri “on the instructions of his hierarchical hierarchical hierarchy”, which the latter had confirmed. At the hearing, the agency manager acknowledged “having acted in an emotional file”: “Charles Pieri is a childhood friend. I did that for him. I recognize that I let this file drag. “
At the arrest of Mr. Pieri in July 2019 in the context of this case, arms and a bulletproof vest had been seized at his home, according to the parquet of Bastia. But “irregularities” during this search had led the prosecution to give up any prosecution and to seize the general inspection of the National Police.
“This umpteenth condemnation imposed in Carlu [Charles] demonstrates the judicial fury he has experienced for decades”, denounced the Association of Defense Corsican prisoners Sulidarita. In September 2018, he had been sentenced to € 15,000 for a message insulting the widow of the Prefect Erignac posted on a Facebook account assigned to him.
This controversial figure of Corsican nationalism had already been sentenced several times, in particular, in 2001, to a five-year sentence for criminal imprisonment in connection with a terrorist company. In 2005, he had been sentenced to ten years of imprisonment for extortion of funds and criminal association. His sentence had finally been brought back to eight years on appeal.