William Molinié, edited by Gauthier Delomez 06:15, January 13, 2023

The administrative court of appeal of Paris must close this Friday the instruction on the case of a police officer in the front line in the investigation of the attacks of Paris.

Wounded on duty during an anti-terrorist operation, he was unable to return to his post.

But for his lawyer, the case law is clear, he should have continued to receive his full base salary.

It is a Kafkaesque situation from which he has the greatest difficulty in extricating himself.

According to information collected by Europe 1, the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal must close this Friday the instruction which opposes Place Beauvau to a police officer from the French anti-terrorist services.

On the front line during the Paris attacks in 2015, it is to him that France owes the arrest of several jihadists.

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Highly rated by his hierarchy, silver medalist for act of courage and dedication, he was congratulated some forty times throughout his career, including on several occasions by the central director of the judicial police, the director general of the national police and even after the attacks by the Minister of the Interior at the time, Bernard Cazeneuve.

"Wounded during an anti-terrorist operation"

Wounded during an anti-terrorist operation a few months after the attacks in Paris, he was unable to return to his service.

Today still recovering, and despite his medical certificates in order, the administration no longer pays him his full base salary.

Which, according to his lawyer Pascal Markowicz, is contrary to case law.

"He should be able to collect all of his remuneration. And for several years, he has been put in the way of criminal or administrative proceedings which in my opinion do not hold up", he explains at the microphone of Europe 1 .

Among these procedures, a more troublesome one surfaced at the end of 2015. An old case almost 10 years old.

It concerns a post where he was previously assigned, to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis: accusations, which he disputes, of money laundering for the benefit of drug traffickers.

He then finds himself indicted for "passive influence peddling", a much lesser charge compared to the initial suspicions.

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Still, his judicial control prohibits him from practicing as a police officer.

This leads the administration to no longer pay him his salary at all this time.

To date, nearly ten years after the events, the legal proceedings have still yielded nothing.

However, for his lawyer, Pascal Markowicz, the case law is again very clear.

"He is a police officer, he is under judicial control which prevents him from exercising his function. But he is still presumed innocent."

He claims before the administrative court of appeal the full payment of his salary since January 2018.

"A Hero of the Republic"

In debt of more than 100,000 euros, he lives off odd jobs, sometimes sleeps in his car and has the greatest difficulty in meeting the needs of his family.

"He does not understand why he who has given so much for this police force, for his administration, why there is no support, consideration and that we blame him, when he is for me a hero of the Republic", supports his lawyer.

Just like, extremely rare, his former colleagues who provided their names to testify to the hierarchy of the loyalty and the confidence that they had vis-à-vis him.

The hearing before the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal should be held by the end of the month.