A man in his thirties was taken into police custody Thursday in the Allier, after passing himself off as a lawyer and having carried out a rambling plea which put the chip in the ears of his real " colleagues ".
He would already be known for acts of fraud.
Unusual hearing at the Cusset correctional court in the Allier, near Vichy: his pleading completed, a lawyer found himself ... in police custody!
The lawyer was in fact an impostor, as reported by
La Montagne
which revealed the case.
Already before the hearing, his way of taking pictures with his clients had to say the least intrigued.
"No legal content"
Then, in the room, while he was defending two people who wanted to buy gold bars on Le Bon Coin and victims of a scam, he disconcerted everyone, starting with Laurent Béard, the deputy prosecutor.
"Doubts really arose given the completely disjointed nature of his intervention, the fact that there was no legal content in the remarks he was making. There was a moment of hesitation because we felt that 'a doubt was being born ", he tells the microphone of Europe 1." When the prosecutor insisted on having documents, he ended up acknowledging that he had been suspended, but what emerges, it is because he is not a lawyer at all, has never been registered with a bar ".
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In fact, intrigued by his attitude, the president of the court even asked him for his lawyer card, which he was unable to produce.
"It seems so rude, and yet ... He did not have an illusion for a second when he pleaded, it changed us a little in our daily life!", Continues Laurent Béard.
Already indicted
The bogus lawyer was therefore taken into custody, arrested in front of his clients who could not believe it.
The man is a professional fraud, Sébastien Buisson, already 11 times convicted, and currently indicted for having embezzled 260,000 euros in humanitarian donations, to the detriment of the association Les Nez Rouges, which he chaired.
Now suspected of illegal activity in the profession of lawyer, his false plea on Thursday may well send him back to bars.