The town hall of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, headed by ex-minister Rachida Dati, and two law firms were raided on Tuesday June 27 by the judicial police in connection with an investigation around the boss of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaïfi.
These operations, carried out by police officers from the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO), took place within the framework of a judicial investigation opened at the end of January. This relates to the accusations of kidnapping, sequestration and torture of a Franco-Algerian lobbyist, which notably target the boss of PSG Nasser Al-Khelaifi and in connection with the possession of sensitive documents, indicated a source close to the file.
This 42-year-old lobbyist, Tayeb Benabderrahmane, had filed a complaint in 2022 with a civil action – a procedure which makes it possible to obtain judicial information almost systematically – for torture, kidnapping and forcible confinement. In this complaint, their client denounces his arrest in January 2020 in Qatar, where he had settled three months earlier to lobby. He claims to have been incarcerated there for six months and tortured. According to him, he was finally allowed to leave in November 2020 after agreeing to sign a protocol in which he undertook not to disclose documents ” sensitive about Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and not talk about it.
Rachida Dati, already in the sights of justice
As part of this investigation entrusted to three Parisian judges, the police raided this Tuesday, June 27 the town hall of the 7th arrondissement led by Rachida Dati, ex-lawyer and former Minister of Justice (2007-2009) during the mandate of Nicolas Sarkozy . They also went to the office of Francis Szpiner, also mayor of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, who is one of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi’s lawyers. Another search was finally carried out in the cabinet of Olivier Pardo, who ensured, according to several media, the defense of the Franco-Algerian lobbyist.
(With AFP)