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Here is a link to a story, written by an Emmanuel Fansten, on the 5th of July 2020, this story contains details of the case that will, above all else, shock you, here is just a small taste of what this article has to offer translated into English:
As the appeal trial of a Briton convicted of importing 1.3 tonnes of drugs in 2013 opens on Monday, "Liberation" reveals new elements concealed during the investigation, including key testimony, which could jeopardize the procedure.
To read the above article for yourself: https://www.liberation.fr/france/2020/07/05/cocaine-une-saisie-en-or-des-methodes-en-toc_1793409/?redirected=1
A few key points we would like to point out in regards to the above link:
1. A paragraph taken from the article, please take note of the text we have underlined especially:
On September 23, 2013, the then Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, came in person to the headquarters of the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ), in Nanterre, to congratulate the investigators and salute the fruit of several weeks collaboration with the Spanish, British and Dutch police.
We would like to point out in response to this statement, there is nothing at all in the French file that shows there was any collaboration with the Spanish, Dutch or the British prior to the arrest of Nathan Wheat. None whatsoever.
2. Another paragraph from the article, please take note of the text we have underlined especially:
In the days that followed, two English and three Italians were arrested and indicted, but none of them had the profile of an international sponsor. It will take more than a year for a Briton, Robert Dawes, to claim ownership of the drugs seized at Roissy on a Spanish wiretap. “You know, the great story I made from Venezuela, he boasts to one of his partners. I made 1,200 in suitcases, you saw that fucking thing on the news! This is the biggest seizure they have made in Paris.”
Our response to this is simply put, we beseech you to contact Mr. Emmanuel Fansten, to verify this statement, Mr. Fansten has reported wrongly here, because nobody in the French courts, nobody in the French justice in France has heard Robert Dawes say these words, we still do not have access to it and when they tried to play it at both trials it was not audible. Mr. Emmanuel Fansten has attended both trials, you may contact him and ask him, has he heard these words in court? The answer will be no, he has not, because no one has. These types of false reports and such things tend to happen when a French court goes by and relies on a transcript made by the British National Crime Agency (NCA), who has nothing to do with the investigation. I defy anybody to say otherwise.
3. A third paragraph we would like to point out, we have underlined a piece that is especially interesting:
The head of Bilc then describes the operation itself: “We found ourselves on the tracks with OCRTIS officers that I did not know. They were ten. Mr. Laine told me: there is no big boss, but there is number 2. He told me the container number. We opened it and there were 31 suitcases that all weighed 30 or 40 kilos, they were very heavy. We haven't opened them. The OCRTIS colleagues asked us not to take any photos.”
Our response to this is as follows, isn't it interesting? A record seizure, but apparently no photos were to be taken? Strange, but not when you add to the fact that the OCRTIS were headed by François Thierry at the time. After reading our case story, and reading this quote from the article, how can you possibly see any parts of the case against Robert Dawes as pure and just.
4. A fourth paragraph we would like you to see as well, please take note of the underlined piece of text:
Officially, any arrival of goods on the national territory must be the subject of a customs report. But that day, the customs officers were ordered to leave no trace. “We never received a written letter, insists Guy C. From the outset, I was told that there would be none. I immediately reported it to my superiors. At each stage, I reported to him. A few days later, we heard the news of a big seizure on television. I remember a report a few months later, where François Thierry wondered how such a quantity of drugs could have been stored at the airport without anyone knowing. I never spoke about it again with anyone, except my colleagues at Bilc.”
Our response to this is quite obvious I can imagine, you can obviously understand it's completely normal procedure to make absolutely no official documents regarding a monumental and record cocaine shipment in your countries history, right? Completely straightforward and logical to not make any official documentation, wouldn't you agree?
https://www.france24.com/en/20130923-france-cocaine-venezuela-soldiers-arrested
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who announced the haul on Saturday as “the biggest seizure of cocaine ever made in mainland France”, told reporters that "several members of a criminal organisation" had been arrested on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-cocaine-idUSBRE98M00920130923
“This marks the biggest seizure of cocaine ever made in mainland France as part of a judicial investigation,” Valls told reporters on Saturday.
Article link: https://www.nouvelobs.com/justice/20181211.OBS6988/coke-en-stock-monsieur-le-commissaire-vous-nous-racontez-des-salades.html
Text taken from the above link: (Please take note, this is translated from French to English) We have made the text that is very interesting bold, so that it is clear and easy to read.
Eric Dupond-Moretti's turn to subject the policeman to a barrage of questions. The lawyer wonders about the poor quality of the photos taken during the July meeting. On these traffickers taking several days before trying to find out if the goods have arrived safely. About this porter who fears for his life but gives another the phone entrusted to him by the traffickers. And repeat:
"Mr. Divisional Commissioner, you're talking nonsense to us!"
At the helm, François Thierry faces up, without ever losing his calm, without convincing either, often taking refuge behind the impossibility of giving information which could make it possible to identify his sources of information.
Eric Dupont-Moretti then launches:
"I will say things clearly: the porter does not exist".
And this one to resume:
"Between the sellers and the buyers of the goods, there is indeed an organization: it is the national police".
Our comments in regards to the above text:
As you can clearly see above, Eric Dupond-Moretti directly said those words to François Thierry. At the time, the current minister of justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti was acting as a defence lawyer for two Italians involved in this case, he was very straightforward with his questions and Thierry was as always, elusive with his answers.
We would also like to add a link to a 2nd article that includes some quotes from Eric Dupond-Moretti as well:
Article link: https://www.liberation.fr/france/2018/12/11/temoin-aux-assises-l-ex-patron-des-stups-tient-sa-ligne_1697319/?redirected=1
There are two sections within the article above that include Eric Dupond-Moretti's quotes, the article as a whole is very interesting but this section is for Eric Dupond-Moretti specifically:
1: (Please take note the text is translated from French to English)
For the specialist, everything is at the transport level. “This is the major issue, he insists. The place where the product takes most of its value. A successful trafficker is a trafficker who knows how to transport his product.” Two tools are available to investigators to exploit this vector: “controlled deliveries”, which consist in letting drugs pass to trap traffickers, and infiltrations, which allow undercover police officers to be placed in contact with the criminal organization.
After an hour of background on the geopolitics of drugs, the lawyers are starting to get impatient. “We can talk a little about our case,” grumbles Eric Dupond-Moretti, who defends one of the Italian traffickers who came to recover the goods. Like all the other lawyers in the case, the famous criminal lawyer knows that the Dawes case hangs on a thin thread: a baggage handler from Roissy, who had to ensure the exit of the goods at the airport on behalf of the criminal organization, would be withdrawn at the last moment. Even more surprising: this same baggage handler reportedly confided in an OCRTIS informant, who then discreetly took over in order to trap the traffickers with the help of undercover police officers. So much for the official version, which stands up quite badly to the examination of the facts.
The lawyers have understood this well, and take up each element of the file one by one to better torpedo it. Like the porter, whose name the commissioner refuses to give for security reasons. His telephone terminal at 9:08 a.m. in Boulogne-Billancourt (south-west of Paris), while he must be on the tarmac at Roissy (north-east) an hour later to accommodate a plane stuffed with coke from of Caracas. “It does not hold, gets carried away Dupond-Moretti. The porter does not exist and has never existed. Even more problematic: the informant used by Ocrtis in this case is none other than Sophiane Hambli, one of the biggest European traffickers recruited as an informant in 2009 by François Thierry.
2: (Please take note the text is translated from French to English)
As revealed by Liberation on Monday, Hambli himself admitted being at the origin of the record seizure of Roissy. “There was an importation of cocaine in 2013 and I made believe that it was me who was going to allow cocaine to leave the airport, he explained. I pretended that I knew people who worked at the airport who were going to help get the drugs out.”
If Sophiane Hambli is telling the truth, drugs would never have arrived in Paris without his intervention. However, in French law, if the police can infiltrate networks, they are not authorized to initiate the traffic. “I don't comment on press articles,” contented himself with replying François Thierry. A dodging strategy that he will hold for nearly 4 hours at the helm. Each time the questions become more specific, the policeman takes refuge behind professional secrecy. “I refuse to give information that would identify the informants, he eludes. It's dangerous for everyone."For the defense, which seeks to exploit all the unsaid, it is above all the sign that the file is set up from scratch. “An organization is responsible for interfacing between buyers and sellers and reassuring everyone, this organization is the national police, thunders Dupond-Moretti, recalling that the police had gone so far as to store drugs in the premises of Brink's while waiting to deliver it to the traffickers. You have the right to lie when you are indicted, not when you are a witness.
Our comments for the first article apply to this second article too:
Thierry was trying to waste time and when questioned was being elusive or using excuses.
The link to this article: https://www.liberation.fr/france/2018/10/11/les-methodes-de-l-ex-patron-des-stups-eclaboussent-la-justice_1684762/?redirected=1
To back up our statements made in our case story, we would like to point out the following paragraph taken from the above link/article, take note of the text we have underlined, that will back up our statements in our case story:
The commissioner's defense is now seeking to have the customs investigation, deemed illegal, canceled by all means. But the seizure of boulevard Exelmans, in Paris in October 2015, may not be the only subject of contention with the tax collectors. Several customs officers were indeed surprised by the regular presence of François Thierry in Roissy, up to twice a week and outside of any legal framework. According to our information, the Lyons investigating judges are also seized of a mysterious traffic of suitcases on the carpets of the airport. As revealed by Liberation,agents from the National Directorate of Research and Customs Investigations (DNRED) testified that they saw Commissioner Thierry come himself to look for suitcases of drugs on the carpets. Heard by the courts, one of these agents was surprised that the Narcotics Office had never wanted to record his statements in the procedure. This is now another point on which the former boss of Ocrtis will have to explain himself.
There first article above comes before the second article, the 7 tonnes of cannabis were seized, the investigation was ongoing, then in relation to those 7 tonnes of cannabis, Sofiane Hambli is arrested. Apparently, according to the second article, the drugs were part of an ongoing operation that was being monitored by OCRTIS, once again, OCRTIS (Thierry) and Hambli.
A paragraph taken from the 2nd link above:
According to Liberation, the Octris was indeed acting within the framework of a secret infiltration operation, baptized + Janissary +, intended to dismantle, with the help of Sofiane Hambli, networks of traffickers including that of one of the most large French importers of cannabis from Morocco.
Our comments in regards to the above paragraph:
"Including that of one of the most large French importers of Cannabis from Morocco", yes, Sofiane Hambli.
A link to assist us in making our comments: https://www.thelocal.fr/20211025/french-drug-boss-arrested-in-moroccan-hospital/
Paragraph taken from the link above: (We have underlined the most important part of the paragraph)
Originally from the eastern French town of Mulhouse, Hambli is considered one of the biggest importers of cannabis to France and has a long criminal record, as well as a history of escaping from detention.
Sofiane Hambli has been considered the biggest importer of cannabis to France for years, he's considered one of the biggest cannabis traffickers internationally, so the above articles stating that the operation was intended to dismantle a network of one of the most large French importers of cannabis from Morocco, is quite strange considering they technically should have already done that by making Hambli an informant and shutting his network down.
Isn't it a coincidence that 7 tonnes of cannabis shows up in Paris in vans and Sofiane Hambli's name gets mentioned again? It's not a coincidence at all, Sofiane Hambli was trafficking that cannabis with François Thierry, and they were both using Thierry's position as commissioner of OCRTIS at the time to protect themselves. The cannabis that was seized belonged to Hambli, and because he got caught, Thierry as the commissioner of OCRTIS had to come to the rescue, Thierry wasn't about to let all that potential profit in cannabis be taken away, especially when they were aiming for his star informant and business partner.
https://www.liberation.fr/societe/2015/08/06/cocaine-trafic-sous-influence_1359843/
The 2 article links show how OCRTIS attempted to use another informer to arrest other traffickers. This goes to show OCRTIS are in the habit of doing this and arranging the trafficking of narcotics themselves. Interestingly, this case and it's procedure was completely cancelled, why you may ask? Please read this interesting paragraph from the 1st link above and pay attention to the text we have underlined:
The plan goes as planned: 132 kilos of cocaine from the West Indies are seized, two dealers arrested. But a twist: the lawyer for one of them denounces a traffic made up from scratch. Justice agrees with him and cancels the procedure − a first which calls into question the methods of the OCRTIS. Olivier's identity is revealed. Today, the former informant is threatened as well as his wife.
Another interesting paragraph taken from the 2nd of the above links, we have underlined an interesting piece of text from the paragraph:
It is one of the last taboos in the business of narcotics: police provocation, or how to build a case from scratch to make a big seizure or bring down a network. This practice, formally prohibited by the Code of Criminal Procedure, is difficult to establish due to a lack of evidence. It is however for this reason that the Paris Court of Appeal has just canceled the entirety of a procedure aimed at extensive drug trafficking between the metropolis and the West Indies. In a scathing judgment dated July 2, to which Liberation had access, the investigating chamber pointed to the "inconsistencies" in the file and underlined the "determining" role of the Central Office for the Suppression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) in setting up the traffic. The case, partially revealed by Le Parisien, has stirred up the investigating services, worried to see some of their methods disavowed by the courts.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/23/drug-barons-haase-bennett
The above article is a prime example of how Hambli and Thierry expected their plan to work, the article also shows and proves that this is not the first time such a plan has been enacted.
Please be aware, we have added a separate PDF that contains our comments of the highlighted text that you will find within the complaint PDF file but this should only be used if you do not have the capability of reading the comments within the PDF itself, as to better understand our comments, we do recommend reading the comments on the PDF if possible to better see what piece of text they relate to.
You will find in this section, general links to anyone mentioned on this website, for example wikipedia links, you will also find google search links and we may also add a few news articles here that we don't think require any further explanation.
Link to his French wikipedia page:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Thierry_(policier)
Link para su pagina de wikipedia en Español:
https://es.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Thierry_(policier)
Our apologies for not being able to provide an English wikipedia link, we hope you can translate it using your preferred browser.
Link to his French wikipedia page:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofiane_Hambli
We apologise for only being able to provide one wikipedia link and that it's in French but we hope you can translate it with your preferred browser.
https://www.liberation.fr/dossier/drogues-revelations-sur-un-trafic-d-etat/
The above link contains many stories that Liberation.fr have written, regarding Sofiane Hambli, François Thierry, Robert Dawes, etc... There are plenty of stories, some relating to this case and relating to the people mentioned on this website.
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