- The lawyer Jean-Louis Keita is accused of having given information in a criminal file in which he intervened.
- Omar Raddad's former lawyer has been charged with breaching professional secrecy.
- The former president of Aix-en-Provence has been in pre-trial detention since February 6 and will remain in prison, according to a decision of the court of appeal.
The Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal confirmed on Thursday the placement in pretrial detention of Jean-Louis Keita, ex-Bâtonnier of Aix-en-Provence and former lawyer of Omar Raddad, imprisoned since February 6 , in particular for breach of professional secrecy.
The 69-year-old lawyer was indicted for breach of professional secrecy and "revelation of information about an investigation or hearing for a crime or offense punishable by ten years' imprisonment, falling under criminality or organized crime , to a person likely to be involved ”.
The closed camera refused
Two investigating judges from the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Marseille suspect him of having provided information on a criminal case in which he was involved. Me Jean-Louis Keita appeared Wednesday before the instruction chamber, supervised by an escort of six members of the prison administration, but at the bar and not in the box, at the request of his lawyers.
His defenders Dominique Mattéi (Marseille) and Gérard Baudoux (Nice) requested his release during a hearing held behind closed doors, at their request. In the presence of the president of Aix-en-Provence in office, Jean-Louis Keita's lawyers had invoked to justify their request behind closed doors the "necessary serenity of the proceedings"
Lawyer of Omar Raddad
Advocate General Yvon Calvet opposed this request, considering that the hearing could be held publicly. "Even if the hearing is a bit peculiar", he had recognized, "it must be part of the normal course of justice and the reasons given (by the defense) for departing from the principle of public hearing are not supported "
Jean-Louis Keita, who spent part of his life in Guinea, took refuge with his mother in Aix-en-Provence, after the execution of his father, head of the Guinean army, in 1971. Renowned criminalist , he is notably known for having defended Patrick Henry, the murderer of little Philippe Bertrand in 1976, Omar Raddad, a Moroccan gardener accused of having killed his boss Ghislaine Marchal in 1991, or one of the assassins of the deputy Yann Piat In 1994.
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