Bernard Squarcini and 10 others await magistrates’ decision on hearing charges including influence peddling and forgery
French prosecutors have called for the former head of the country’s internal intelligence agency to stand trial on charges of influence peddling and forgery.
The so-called “Squarcini Affair” has dragged on for more than a decade. French media reported that prosecutors had recommended judges order a trial for the intelligence chief, nicknamed Le Squale , and 10 others, including a former appeal court judge, on 23 December. Detectives accuse him of using his connections in the police and other security networks to access confidential information about live investigations. After a preliminary inquiry launched in 2011, Squarcini was officially put under investigation – the French equivalent of being charged – in 2016.
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