a new police officer indicted in the file of leaks of confidential information

According to AFP and Le Monde, a new police officer was indicted on March 8 in the judicial investigation relating to suspicions of leaks of confidential information for the benefit of PSG.

A new police officer was indicted on March 8 in the judicial investigation relating to suspicions of leaks of confidential information for the benefit of PSG, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday, confirming information from Le Monde. This police officer was indicted for breach of national defense secrecy, breach 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.

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. His lawyer, Me Jocelyne Azincourt, declined to comment. 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 business keeps growing

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. Since then, the case has continued to grow, mixing suspicions of private espionage, blackmail and accusations of torture.

Several protagonists indeed accuse the boss of PSG Nasser al-Khelaïfi of having wanted to destroy compromising documents linked to Qatar’s obtaining of the World Cup. “NAK” has since announced a defamation complaint against Tayeb Benabderrahmane, who implicates him and whom he accuses of having wanted to disclose personal documents belonging to him, including these exchanges linked to the Qatari World Cup. The lobbyist, who claims to have been arbitrarily detained in Qatar for six months at the start of 2020, obtained for his part the opening at the end of January of a judicial investigation for torture, kidnapping and kidnapping.