French Police Officer Sentenced for Planting Evidence and Falsifying Report

An imprudence committed two years earlier caught up with this sworn agent. At the time, aged 40, the municipal police officer had made a false statement in a report. According to 20 minutes.fr, the agent recorded in a report that he and his patrol colleagues had found cannabis resin sachets on three minors they had apprehended, when he had himself placed the sachets at the feet of two of them.

Faced with the denunciations of the young defendants, one of whom had gotten rid of his cannabis sachet under the eyes of the municipal police officers, and given the surveillance camera recordings, an investigation was opened by the Nanterre Prosecutor’s Office.

Cornered by the investigators and the Nanterre Criminal Court, the defendant partially admitted the facts, the same source specifies. Continuing his explanations, the municipal agent said he had recovered the sachets in question in a bush where two of the minors had themselves thrown them shortly before their arrest. According to the former soldier, he now intends to take responsibility. "I am aware of the prejudice to the young people, to the authority, to my colleagues," he said before the court deliberated.

The defendant was sentenced to 3 years in prison, two of them suspended. In addition, his sentence was accompanied by a ban on carrying out any judicial police duties for five years. "If we have false reports, there is no more state," deplored prosecutor Guillaume Daieff.