If the file was postponed until December 6, the referral hearing allowed us to find out more about this extraordinary case in terms of illegal fishing: size of the boat, conditions of interception of the Brazilian vessel, defense strategy .
For the second time – the trial had already been postponed on October 11, Durval Maues Da Conceicao was taken under escort from the Rémire-Montjoly Prison Center to the Larivot Judicial Court, in Matoury.
Gray T-shirt, glasses, this 49-year-old native of Belem relies on a sworn translator to follow the debates and express himself when the judges ask him to do so. For him, everything changed on October 5 : that day, the captain of the trawler “ Charm », a vessel twenty-three meters long and four meters draft, refuses to obey the orders of the intervention units sent by the patrol boat Capricieuse, off the coast of Ouanary, in the bay of Oyapock , according to the procedure. He cut the trawl that was at sea and put on the gas to try to return to Brazilian waters.
On board each of the two light boats launched after him were around ten sailors and maritime gendarmes. According to the first elements mentioned this Tuesday at the hearing, the soldiers approached the fugitive to board. Among the twenty-one civil parties – sailors from the “ Solved » and maritime gendarmes, eleven were under attack temporary work interruption (ITT) ranging from three to twenty-one days. Among the reasons for the captain's prosecution, “ unintentional injuries » and “endangering others (with immediate risk of death or disability) by deliberate violation of an obligation of safety and prudence ».
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The defense lawyer, Maître Stephan Doutrelong, submitted his conclusions this Tuesday before the hearing. « I request the annulment of the diversion order »warns the lawyer, who denounces « a completely illegal operation »with « a complication of this file : the delimitation of territorial waters ». We learn in passing that the value of the seized boat was estimated at 150 000 euros and that of the seized goods at 125 000 euros (17.5 tonnes of seafood and 500 kg of swim bladders).
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The public prosecutor requested a postponement of the hearing until December 6 to analyze the elements of the defense, with the captain remaining in detention. The judges went in this direction : the case will be debated on this date before the criminal court and Durval Maues Da Conceicao will await his trial in prison. “ I would like to be released so that I can find my family because they need me “, he said when the judges gave him the floor.
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