Former drug kingpin François Thierry was acquitted on Friday, September 27, following a trial related to the police arrest in 2012 of a drug trafficker, recruited as an informant. The measure was “procedurally irregular” but there was not “without fraudulent intent”, because it had been done “under control” AND “according to the Paris prosecutor’s office”declared the president of the Rhône criminal court, Eric Chalbos.
This went against the requests of Advocate General Vincent Auger, who had requested four years of suspended imprisonment, denouncing a “Police and legal disaster”powered by “megalomania” By François Thierry. When the sentence was announced, the 56-year-old commissioner shed some tears before hugging his colleagues.
The former head of the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) was accused of having prepared a false police arrest report to justify the release from prison, in April 2012, of its main “indica”, Sophiane Hambli .
The maneuver allowed this major trafficker to follow, remotely from a hotel room, the arrival of six tons of cannabis resin on a Spanish beach, a “supervised delivery” by the police aimed at dismantling resale networks in France.
During the hearings, François Thierry, who now heads the digital strategy of the national police, admitted the facts, but assured that he had never “I felt like I was making a fake”.
