Nine days after their incredible escape of Santo Domingo, where they had been heavily convicted of drug trafficking, Pascal Fauret drivers and Bruno Odos were caught by the French courts and detained Monday for their appearance. Pascal Fauret was remanded in custody after being heard in Lyon by the judge of freedoms and detention (JLD). Odos Bruno was imprisoned after being heard in Grenoble. The two men are to be transferred to Marseille to be heard by the investigating judge who investigates the French component of this vast transatlantic drug trafficking, nicknamed “Air Cocaine”.
The police showed up early Monday the homes of Fauret Pascal, 55, in the suburbs of Lyon, and Bruno Odos, 56, in Isère, bearing the warrant from Judge Christine Ruellan-Saunier, which investigated the case since February 2013. They arrived at Pascal Fauret at 7:00, confirmed his lawyer Jean Reinhart, “surprised” by the procedure chosen by the judge. “The warrant was useless, it is to do the show,” he ruled, noting that his client and the other driver, Bruno Odos, had “told the judge and then publicly that they were willing to go for an interview “of justice.
An international arrest warrant has been issued against the two pilots of the Republic of Santo Domingo. After the escape, but Paris has ruled out the possibility of a return of the two men in the Dominican Republic. “We were at the disposal of the judge. We had warned as soon as they set foot in France. Frankly, I did not think we would be home to the police, “said the wife of one of the two drivers, Sabine Fauret” outraged. ” “I am outraged, I am appalled,” responded Eric Dupond-Moretti Me, lawyer Bruno Odos. “We had asked that summons us, but it was not that bad habits prevail. “
exfiltration operation incredible
Pascal Fauret Odos and Bruno were the pilots of a Falcon 50 intercepted in March 2013 in Punta Cana airport on board which were two Other passengers, French and Alain Nicolas Pisapia Castany. Aboard the plane, chartered by a rental company, SN-THS, based in Bron (Rhône), were 680 kg of cocaine in 26 bags, according to the Dominican authorities.
The four French, sentenced in August 2015 in Santo Domingo 20 years in prison, had been left free pending their appeal. Relatives then organized in great secrecy exfiltration operation of the two pilots, ship and by air, allowing them to return to France in late October. The two other French remained in Santo Domingo.
In the French part of the investigation, in January 2013, the police had been alerted to “suspicious behavior” of passengers of a Falcon 50 that landed a month earlier in Saint-Tropez. On December 9, 2012, a customs officer stationed at Toulon, now suspected of complicity, had gone to welcome the aircraft with onboard Fauret Pascal Bruno and Nicolas Odos Pisapia. He had brought on the tarmac two vehicles that had prevailed ten suitcases unloaded from the machine.
According to the survey, two other identical unloading took place in 2012 and another was scheduled March 18, 2013 . A businessman, Franck Colin, acknowledged having chartered the plane and was taken into custody. Also incarcerated, the two patrons of the SN-THS, have since been released under judicial control.
In the Air Cocaine investigation, the judge had considered incidentally three charter flights from SN-THS on behalf of former President Nicolas Sarkozy by the company of his friend Stéphane Courbit. According to The Sunday Journal , the judge also asked geolocation telephone Nicolas Sarkozy and detailed communications bills. The lawyer of Nicolas Sarkozy, Me Thierry Herzog asked “explanations.” This part of the investigation on a possible misuse of public funds has since been transferred to the financial prosecutor in Paris.
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