2023-05-25 22:08:50
The investigation is progressing. A new police officer was indicted on March 8 in the judicial investigation on suspicion of leaking confidential information for the benefit of PSG, a judicial source said on Thursday, confirming a world information.
This police officer was indicted for breach of national defense secrecy, violation of professional secrecy and misappropriation of the purpose of processing personal data, according to the judicial source. His placement under judicial supervision was confirmed by the investigating chamber on May 11, the source added.
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According to a source familiar with the matter, it is Sofiane S., a brigadier-chief who was then assigned to the Zonal Territorial Intelligence Service (SZRT) in Bordeaux. He is mainly suspected, according to an investigation report from the end of September of which AFP has knowledge, of having provided a protagonist of the file with elements on a supporter slapped by Neymar in 2019, whose identity was then leaked on Twitter. In exchange, he would have obtained tickets for club matches.
He is at least the third police officer in service at the time of the alleged acts indicted in this case. The story with drawers broke out in September, first focusing on suspicions of the transmission of confidential information on certain people from police files, in particular at the Parisian football club.
Three first indictments were then pronounced, in particular for influence peddling and corruption: Malik Naït-Liman, ex-policeman of the intelligence services, hired in 2018 as referent supporters at PSG; Franco-Algerian lobbyist Tayeb Benabderrahmane; a police officer on standby, ex-member of the DCRI. Another police officer was indicted on May 11.
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