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Racket dealers in Paris: eight people including six police officers tried in November

Eight people, including six police officers from the 18th anti-crime squade borough of Paris, will be judged in correctional from November 3 in a case of racketeering of dealers, according to information from the World .

The investigating judges responsible for this investigation ordered this summer the referral to court of these eight people, involved to varying degrees in this case which shook the Paris police.

The main protagonist, a brigadier of the BAC of the police station of the XVIIIe Nicknamed “Bylka” (Kabyle in verlan) by dealers in the Goutte d’Or district in Paris, will appear in particular for “passive corruption committed by a person holding public authority”, as well as “transport, possession, acquisition, supply or transfer of narcotics ”.

He will also be judged for “forgery in public writing”, “theft” and “misappropriation of a personal data file”.

A denunciation for suspicion of corruption

At his side will appear five other police officers, almost all accused of “forgery in public writing” and, for some, of drug trafficking or “violence by a person holding public authority”.

Two other men, not police officers, are also referred to the court for trafficking and possession of narcotics. One of them will also have to answer for “active corruption”.

It all started froma denunciation for suspicion of corruption targeting “Bylka”, “Considered by justice as the organizer of embezzlement”, according to the site Days who had revealed in June 2019 the affair.

The Paris prosecutor’s office had opened in 2018 a preliminary investigation and then a judicial investigation, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of the National Police (IGPN), the “police police”.

Traffickers protected for remuneration?

At the time of the indictment of the protagonist, a source close to the case had indicated that he was suspected, along with colleagues, of having “Protected from drug traffickers for remuneration” and for laundering the money thus obtained. The acts would have been committed for some from 2014 and until the summer of 2019.

To the site Days, neighborhood dealers, “Already gone through the prison box », Had claimed that Bylka had “Already proposed to” take insurance “so as not to be arrested” – in short, to pay.

The brigadier’s lawyer, Me Patrick Maisonneuve, assured that the accusations of corruption and drug trafficking would be bitterly discussed during the trial. “We will challenge them”, he declared, denouncing a “Deleterious atmosphere”.

“The hierarchy is informed of a certain number of things and from the moment there are results, we are satisfied with the results”.

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