Bernard Petit was suspected of having communicated confidential information on an investigation targeting the former prefect Christian Prouteau. The accusation collapsed during the debates.
by Samuel Laurent
“The court gave his honor to Bernard Petit, considers his advice, M e Arthur Dethomas. But we cannot help but dizzy when thinking about the life of this man , to the career of this great police officer who changed. “Eight years after having seen his professional life collapse, when a decree of the Minister of the Interior suspended him from his functions, in February 2015, the former Patron of the Parisian judicial police was released on Tuesday, December 6, of all the facts alleged against him.
Bernard Petit was accused, alongside his deputy from the time Richard Atlan, of having disclosed confidential information on an in -law investigation, targeting the former prefect Christian Prouteau. He had been acoquinated with the notorious scammer Christophe Rocancourt, who proposed, against remuneration, to play his interpersonal skills to obtain the regularization of two Moroccan sisters threatened with expulsion.
The prosecution targeting MM. Small and Atlan was based almost exclusively on the testimony of another defendant of this sprawling trial of the “leaks of the 36”: Philippe Lemaître, former civil servant of the ministry, recassed within the association of police social works (Anas) .
“He lies, all the time, on all”
It was his confessions before the investigating judges Roger Le Loire and Charlotte Bilger led to the indictment of the boss of the PJ in February 2015. Mr. Lemaître assures the investigating judges to have acted on the orders of His superior, the influential Joaquin Masanet, historic figure of police unionism and boss of the Anas, going to seek information from Mr. Petit, in order to deliver them to Christian Prouteau, Freemason just like Mr. Masanet, assures -Al.
las, the whole building collapsed during the three weeks of hearing before the 11 e Chamber of the Paris court. Faced with the precise questions of the president, Benjamin Blanchet, Philippe Lemaître is annoyed and confused, one day explaining that he had lied to the investigating magistrates, before returning the next day to his initial version. “He lies, all the time, on everything”, was sorry Bernard Petit, very moved, at the helm. The prosecution could only be able to agree in its requisitions: it is “extremely difficult to follow [Mr. Lemaître] in its declarations” so much “its version has radically changed”, noted the prosecutor Damien Four from MM. Small and Atlan. A choice respected by President Blanchet.