2023-09-30 11:00:12
Arnaud Mimran, at the Paris court, July 7, 2016. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
It was by diving back into the latest legal case in progress concerning Arnaud Mimran that Fabrice Arfi noted “fortuitously, three weeks ago”how much he obsessed the former trader, sentenced in 2017 to eight years in prison for his role in fraud. VAT on carbon quotas. The journalist from “Mediapart”, who has worked extensively on the “scam of the century” and devoted a book to the subject (Of money and blood, Seuil, 2018), was then able to discover the revenge plans that Arnaud Mimran imagined for him.
The file in question – three homicides in 2010, 2011, 2014 in the entourage of Arnaud Mimran, for which the latter is indicted – had been, at the end of 2022, augmented with transcriptions of the sound system carried out in 2019 and 2020 in the cell and visiting rooms of Arnaud Mimran at the Le Havre penitentiary center (Seine-Maritime). The 51-year-old inmate, who completed his carbon sentence, is currently serving another thirteen years in prison for the kidnapping, sequestration and extortion of a Swiss financier in 2015.
Read our investigation (2017): The incredible story of the carbon scam: the summary of the five episodes
“Something really must happen to him”said Arnaud Mimran, speaking about the journalist to his partner, on the phone, in June 2019. “Fabrice Arfi is the worst dirty guy on earth (…). But hey, he came across the wrong person with me”he told her one evening in October 2019, where he imagined this scenario: “When I go out, I do something to him. I take a girl, I swore, she follows him, she charms him, he goes to the hotel with her, she starts screaming, she files a rape complaint and there is an article in the newspapers that it He’s a rapist, after all it doesn’t matter even if he isn’t convicted, at least he’ll see what it’s like to get dirty. I swore I did! I swore ! And if I can, if there is cocaine on her, let him take the whole thing! And the dream would be that I find a girl who is 17 and a half but hey, that’s hard. »
“I hope you don’t do that when you get outreplies his companion.
– Yeah, yes, I sure do! I only think about him and I want there to be articles. I’ll have plenty of time to take care of him. »
Arnaud Mimran was questioned by an investigating judge about these comments in February 2023: “It’s all fake, just kiddinghe assures. I want to make people laugh [ma compagne]. »
“I made up this story”
“Coming from a proven criminal, suspected by the courts of being involved in three murders of which he claims to be innocent, these threats cannot be taken as boastingreacted Edwy Plenel, president and founder of “Mediapart”, in a text published on the information site. Our concern is all the more serious as we learned accidentally of the risks incurred by Fabrice Arfi without having been formally alerted by the judicial or police authorities. »
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