Nice Police Officer Arrested for Alleged Corruption in Drug Trafficking Case

This 33-year-old police officer is on duty at the L’Ariane police station. He is suspected of having provided confidential information to local drug traffickers in exchange for a large sum of money, reports Var-Matin. The policeman was taken into custody within the Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale, "the police of the police", before being presented to the Nice prosecutor’s office on Friday, June 12.

Judge of Instruction Alexandre Julien is in charge of a judicial investigation opened for corruption. As for the judge of liberties and detention, Isabelle Demarbaix-Joando, she decided to place the suspect in pre-trial detention, the same source specifies.

After being the subject of an investigation by the judicial police, one of the corruptors, a trafficker from the Liserons district in Nice, is also in prison. Another, on the run in Morocco, is the subject of an arrest warrant. The incarcerated policeman would have received from the latter, through an intermediary, a sum of 10,000 euros in exchange for confidential information. The police officer would have accepted this deal because he would have been heavily in debt.