VIDEO. Arnaud Mimran, convicted of carbon tax fraud, detained in Sarthe, denounces relentlessness

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Arnaud Mimran, already sentenced in 2016 to eight years in prison and a fine of one million euros in the vast case of carbon VAT fraud, made famous by the television series of Money and Blood with Vincent Lindon and Ramzy Bediawait for the instruction to finish other criminal files and is currently in pre-trial detention in the Croisettes remand center in Le Mans (Sarthe).

It was during an appearance at a criminal hearing for receiving cell phonesFriday November 8, 2014, that he explained to the Le Mans judges that he was in solitary confinement for a month and highlighted his condition of detainee particularly notedfar from his family and his five children. “One day in solitary confinement is a normal week of detention. Le Mans was the period when I was most unhappy.”

The carbon tax scammer, Arnaud Mimran, in pre-trial detention for 8 years denounces relentlessness

His status and cases (three including two for organized gang murder) earned him a special regime which he said he had more and more difficult to bear.

His lawyer, Hugues Vigierdenounces disguised sanctions. “I am often very worried about Arnaud. He is in pre-trial detention for eight years. And today nothing would prevent him from being in an establishment for punishment. And that would change everything. He would have an individual cell, more bearable prison living conditions…There is no right to all this. We asked for it systematically but the judges who examine the cases refused. »

Yet theinstruction is completed since December 2023. “We have been waiting for the requisitions for a very long time. The reasonable period of one month is very largely outdated”, points out the lawyer to the Le Mans judges who are there to rule on six facts of concealment of mobile phones and other sim cards and USB keys.

“It’s very easy to get a phone”

The president asks Arnaud Mimran how he explains the repetition of the facts.

Black t-shirt and dark look on a graying beardthe former poker high roller turns his eyes on the president.

I have been in prison for a long time. It's very hard to be far from your family, far from your children

So yes, since “it’s very easy to get a phone”, he does and he uses it to call his children “in Facetime. They all live abroad.”

He has three children from his first union with one of the daughters of billionaire Claude Dray (father-in-law whom he is suspected of having murdered). The eldest is 24 years old and lives in London, her youngest, 22 years old, “does dental studies in Madrid”, the third is 17 years old and does not live in France either.

His two youngest children are with his current partner in Milan, Italy.

“My reason for living is my children”

“Today in Le Mans, there is no UVF (editor’s note: family life units which allow prisoners to spend time with loved ones for durations of 6 to 72 hours). I have two more visits per month. My only reason for living is my children,” says the former stockbroker in a clear and strong voice.

Then he continues: “I’m slowly dying. Nobody cares. I know I put myself in this situation all by myself. »

The former golden boy of the beautiful neighborhoods of the capital who gave his address as rue de la Pompe in the very chic 16^e arrondissement from Paris, mentions the telephone trafficking he witnesses in prison and which would not merit the other prisoners concerned to appear in court.

1000 euros of telephone per month

The judge disabuses him. “We very often see detainees for concealment phone number”.

The president of this collegial hearing wonders. “I’m listening to you and I’m wondering what’s going to stop you from continuing. »

Arnaud Mimran, who has been in the Le Mans remand center since mid-2023, invokes a forced withdrawal He's been in confinement for a month. “Today I managed to organize myself with the cabin, I have a video room once a week. I see my children like that. It costs 1000 euros per monthyou should know, the cabin. »

For the prosecution, the vice prosecutor Arnaud Marie justifies: “the reasoning which leads to its pursuit is not only for an observed fact, but because of the accumulation of a series of six during the past year at Le Mans.

A very heavy criminal record

He demands a year in prison for the one who counts 12 entries in his criminal record (fraudulent evasion of tax, taking of the name of a third party, fraud by an organized gang: 1 million and 8 years of sentence, various concealments, kidnapping of hostages by an organized gang, organized gang extortion and various traffic offenses) and is, for the moment, releasable in 2032.

In the detainee box, Arnaud Mimran supports his forearms on the low wall that separates the space from the rest of the room and listens attentively.

His lawyer, Maître Vigier, takes the floor and denounces the relentlessness which is made to its client.

“Install jammers in prisons”

He thunders” here we are faced with the greatest hypocrisy. I can tell you that I I could find myself before your jurisdiction every day for receiving stolen goods. »

The council then explains that inmates are trying to contact him from cell phones. » And if after four or five calls there is no answer, we receive threats. With Arnaud, and I thank him, this never happened. If you want that these crimes stopinstall jammers. »

On the phones and memory cards found during the regular searches which are carried out in the cell of the particularly noted detainee Mimran, were not found as commercial films, films and family photosmusic as well as calls made to his family.

His sister in police custody in Le Mans

This is also what was observed on a micro SD card discovery, Thursday November 7, 2024, in the lining of a bag that her brother-in-law and her older sister brought to her during a meeting and which resulted in the latter still being in police custody this Friday, November 8 in the afternoon. “This card is mine. I had forgotten it when returning laundry… my sister didn't know it was there. Check vYou will only find my fingerprints there. Blame it on me,” explains Arnaud Mimran.

Parquet side we explain that nosince it was not found on the detainee or in his cell, it cannot be blamed on him.

“Is a gunshot or a phone call the same? »

The carbon tax scam a the final word before the judges leave to deliberate. “In prison, we have the newspaper. I read that a man who fired a shot here was sentenced to a year. A gunshot or a phone callis it the same? »

After deliberating, the judges sentenced Arnaud Mimran to six months in prison.

The one who is suspected of having links with organized crime left the court to join the Le Mans remand center accompanied by his imposing escort opened by two bikers.

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