Former drug boss François Thierry was acquitted on Friday following a trial relating to the placement in police custody in 2012 of a drug trafficker, recruited as an informer.
The measure was “procedurally irregular” but there was “no fraudulent intention” because it was “taken in agreement with the Paris prosecutor’s office”, declared the president of the Rhône criminal court, Eric Chalbos. Namely that the latter went against the requisitions of the attorney general who had requested four years of suspended prison sentence against the commissioner.
The first part of a sprawling affair
This trial is the first part of a sprawling affair relating to the methods of Ocrtis, the Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking that François Thierry headed from 2010 to 2016.
The scandal broke out in October 2015 when customs discovered seven tons of cannabis in the heart of Paris. The investigation quickly demonstrated that the drugs had arrived in France as part of another “supervised delivery”, carried out by Ocrtis with the help of Sofiane Hambli.
These operations are supposed to relate to pre-existing trafficking, but the office and its boss are suspected of having favored the importation of the goods. François Thierry is also criticized for not having given a global vision of what was going on at the judicial authority, nor of his exact links with Sofiane Hambli.
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