Trial of the Bac police officers: The sergeant accused of being a ripoux assures that he did not steal cocaine.
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A. GELEBART / 20 MINUTES
Until February 12, eight people including six police officers are on trial in a vast corruption case based on drug trafficking in the Goutte d'Or district.
Brigadier Karim M. is suspected of having organized the racketeering of Goutte d'Or dealers, offering protection to those who paid "insurance", calling out to those who refused.
He faces ten years in prison and a million euros fine.
At the criminal court in Paris,
Drugs ?
What drug?
Of the large quantity of cocaine that was to be seized on June 8, 2018 in the 18th arrondissement, no one saw the color.
When he arrived at the Goutte d'Or police station, Karim M. planted his key in the package that had been discovered in a car during an operation carried out thanks to two informants.
The two suspects arrested, said the defendant this Friday at the bar of the 16th chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, claimed that it contained date paste.
The Bac policeman therefore wanted to check "before passing for idiots in front of the OPJ [judicial police officer]".
Indeed, it was not white powder and the two men arrested were released almost on the spot.
However, one of Karim M.'s colleagues then went to tell the commissioner of this district that he suspected him of having stolen the drug after having replaced it with this delicious specialty from the Maghreb.
He added that he had been known to "take envelopes" from the dealers in the area for ten years.
The investigation of the IGPN - the police force - did not take long to reveal the mistakes of this police officer who had hitherto accumulated letters of congratulations.
Nicknamed "Bylka", the kabyle in verlan, Karim M. has been tried since Wednesday for passive corruption, drug trafficking, forgery in public writing, money laundering ... At his side on the bench, five of his colleagues and two men suspected of 'have been his accomplices.
"Extremely light" device
Purple and gray sweatshirt, Adidas jogging bottoms, Ahmad M., known as “the Hindu”, is a figure of the Goutte d'Or and privileged informant of the said policeman.
It is he who would have put Karim M. on the spot of this drug transaction.
He got wind of it through a Congolese intermediary from Montargis, whom he says he does not know.
“We have never found it,” underlines the president, Isabelle Prévost-Desprez.
He then spoke with Karim M., to help him.
"We came to an agreement and we made an appointment" with the dealers in the 18th arrondissement.
Ahmad M. warns the policeman that it is probably a "significant quantity" of drugs, without being more precise.
Without notifying his superiors, he will put in place a system to recover narcotics and challenge the sellers.
However, remarks the magistrate, "it is not in the missions of the Bac to intervene on such large quantities".
Karim M. assures us that he simply wanted to be “the hero of the day” and had no ulterior motives.
The operation is a festival of amateurism.
Despite the risks, they are only three to arrest the suspects.
"I am surprised by this extremely light device, especially for people who are not used to this kind of operation," said the magistrate.
No OPJ then moves to search their car.
If cocaine had actually been found, the proceedings could have largely been canceled due to procedural flaws.
“Thin, 1 kg of dates!
"
But at 9:43 pm that day, in front of his colleagues, Karim M. exclaims aloud: “Damn, 1 kg of dates!
".
He would then have made an appointment with one of his informants in Barbès for him "to prove to him that their plan was the carrot [of the scam]".
He had taken the package with him "to show him because date paste is not common."
"Yes, I agree, it's not common," blows the president.
As for one of the two suspects arrested - the other has not been found - he claims that he had not come to Paris with the idea of selling cocaine.
On the other hand, he maintains that the 1,200 euros which were in his car disappeared when he left the police station.
“These are my savings, at home there have already been stories of theft.
So, I always have my money on me….
He said more or less seriously.
"There are delinquents everywhere," quips the president.
Olivier D. is currently in pre-trial detention in a theft case.
He also served time in prison for his involvement in drug trafficking in 2009. “It's dated!
"
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