A police commissioner from Rouen returned to correctional for violation of the secrecy of the investigation
A police commissioner from Rouen, implicated for violation of the secrecy of an investigation, was sent back to the criminal court, and placed under judicial control, announced Thursday, May 19 the prosecution of Evreux.
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In accordance with the request of the prosecution, a judge of freedoms and placed the police officer under judicial supervision with a ban on performing his duties, the public prosecutor of Evreux, Dominique Puechmaille, told AFP. In total, “five people were referred today (Thursday, editor’s note) to the Évreux prosecutor’s office, including a police commissioner from Rouen. There is also his wife, a lawyer, a business manager from Rouen and his wife“, explained the magistrate.
Judicial summons
The prosecutor confirmed that the commissioner is suspected of having sent the business manager information on an investigation opened against this same manager by the Rouen prosecutor’s office. “They all received a summons before the criminal court of Évreux on June 21“, added Dominique Puechmaille, specifying that the commissioner is sent back to court”for breach of investigative secrecy and breach of professional secrecy“. His company is firedfor concealment of breach of professional secrecy“, the lawyer “for violation of professional secrecy», the entrepreneur and his wife for «Concealment of violation of the secrecy of the investigation“.
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According to the prosecutor,the investigation failed through an investigation opened by the Rouen public prosecutor’s office against the business manager“. As part of the investigations, it appeared a “suspicion of leaks” and “the first elements were oriented towards the commissionershe explained. With regard to the police officer, in charge until then in Rouen of the departmental security service, the investigation was disoriented towards Evreux, indicated the prosecutor who explains that she then opened “an investigation addressed to the IGPN (General Inspectorate of the National Police, Editor’s note) initially for violation of professional secrecy.»
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