He is one of the key figures in the open court case that has shaken Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) since the end of September. Malik Nait-Liman, 45, is a former anti-terrorist policeman converted to the security of the Parisian football club, which he left recently. Indicted for “violation of professional secrecy”, “influence peddling”, “corruption”, “forgery”, “help to enter and stay illegally in an organized gang”, “misappropriation of the purpose of a file of data”, “compromising national defense secrets” and “illegal taking of interests” in the context of his activities at PSG, he met at length The Monde to tell his story and explain his accusations. Tall, thin, charming, he is a tired and angry man against the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), which he believes is hounding him.
From a French mother and an Algerian father, Malik Nait-Liman was born in Lagny-sur-Marne, in Seine-et-Marne. Having become a police officer, he joined the General Intelligence (RG) in 2004. “At the time, my origins and the fact of being Muslim were a plus. I was recruited to enter mosques, neighborhoods. » Quickly, he was assigned to spinning and arrests. A field work where you must not be cold in the eyes. He infiltrates places of worship, “filoche” of Corsican and Basque nationalists.
The troubles began, according to him, when Nicolas Sarkozy merged, in 2008, the RG and the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST) into a single body, the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI) − which became DGSI in 2014. The former members of the DST take a dim view of disembarking the ex-RGs, whom they do not consider worthy of their standing. The RGs, on the other hand, see those of the DST as leather rings or call them “Quechua”, in reference to a brand of hiking clothing that they wear too willingly when spinning and which makes them easily recognizable.
Contract of trust broken
In his early days, Malik Nait-Liman was a brilliant element, well noted and regularly congratulated, in particular by Bernard Squarcini, the boss of the DCRI at the time: “He was a good element, I never saw anything negative about him”, confirms the one who led the DCRI until May 2012. His career changed in 2011, when a DCRI agent was sanctioned for having informed a trade unionist of an upcoming dragnet. He warns the press. Result: on D-Day, the media turn up. Malik Nait-Liman defends the policewoman, who has been sanctioned, in public in front of her department head. From there, the contract of trust between the two men is broken.
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