Corruption in Fresnes: Four years firm required against prison manager

The former director of the 3rd Division of the remand center is accused of having given advantages, in exchange for money and services, to three detainees against whom sentences of two to four years firm were requested during the trial which ended Thursday, November 10, in Créteil.

by Henri Seckel

A director of penitentiary services, category A +civil servant, and two actors of the gigantic scam on the VAT on the carbon market among the defendants, tried for a case of corruption in prison: the trial held From Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 November before 9 e Chamber of the Criminal Court of Créteil was out of the ordinary, and promised to immerse ourselves in prison life and its combins.

The first chapter of this story is rather clear. Its characters Khalid El Khal and Fabrice Touil. The first was director of the 3 e division of the Fresnes remand center (Val-de-Marne) when the second was in pre-trial detention in 2016-2017, pending His trial for the carbon tax scam. At the end of 2017, Fabrice Touil was no longer incarcerated: before his trial, scheduled for early 2019, he was authorized to go out under electronic bracelet against a deposit of 3 million euros. It took 1 million immediately, 2 million remain to be paid.

At least at least, at the end of 2017 and early 2018, Khalid El Khal and Fabrice Touil are on the side of the Champs-Elysées in the service car of the first, which always takes care to turn off his phone, but ignores that Microphones have been placed in his vehicle by investigators alerted about him, and who distinctly hear his words: “I read the file, there is nothing, there are four pages about you. Fabrice, listen to what I tell you . We must not give them 2 million, they will not put you on the closet, because in the file, there is nothing, there is nothing, there is nothing, there is nothing! “

” boast ”

During these meetings by car, Khalid El Khal speaks a lot. He provides information to Fabrice Touil on his criminal file; says he will make sure that his brother, on the run, benefits from favorable conditions of detention if he came to surrender; boasts of being able to obtain arrangements of pain and exit permissions for whom he wants. On three times, during these meetings, Fabrice Touil gives money to Khalid El Khal: 1,500 euros the first time, 3,000 the second, 500 the third. The microphones capture the noise of bundles of tickets that you count between your fingers.

Khalid El Khal had no choice but to recognize having accepted this money, and regretted, at the hearing, a “serious fault”, which he presented as a “deontological failure”. But he explained that these were gifts for his son about to be born, and that all of this was in no way linked to the information he shared with Fabrice Touil, information that had anyway, anyway, he hammered, no value: “I said anything”, “bullshit”, “rantings”, “I was in the fanfaronnade”.

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