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Influential boss of domestic intelligence between 2008 and 2012, then successful consultant in the private sector, did the former figurehead of the Sarkozy networks in the police act outside the law? He will appear from this Wednesday, November 13 at the Paris judicial court with a series of former police officers or magistrates.
He is still nicknamed a killer in police and intelligence circles, the “Sharks”. And he claims it: his WhatsApp profile still displays a photo of a shark swimming in blue water. But, he spreads in private (he declined the interview request of Liberation), “we cut off his fins, the shark”. At 68, the former boss of internal intelligence, long considered a great cop before the courts fished him out of the troubled waters where counter-espionage agents and private swindlers sometimes wade, faces the Paris Criminal Court from the 13th november. He will be tried, alongside a series of former police officers, ex-intelligence agents, a converted magistrate and even a journalist, for a long list of alleged crimes.
The investigating judges referred Bernard Squarcini to the judicial court on September 1, 2023 for 11 charges, including “embezzlement of public funds by an individual” et “false in public writing”as well as “concealment of fraudulent collection of personal data” or “complicity in illegal practice” private research agent or regulated professions relating to private security activities. Miscellaneous «violations» of secrecy, whether it is
