EXCLUSIVE - Chevaline killing: The anger live in "Crimes" this noon of the lawyer of the biker who was placed in police custody: "We came close to a dramatic judicial error!" - VIDEO
This lunchtime, Jean-Christophe Basson-Larbi, the lawyer of the biker who was taken into custody, was the exclusive guest on the daily show "Crimes et faits divers" on NRJ12.
"My client was more than devastated [when he was taken into custody]. The skies had fallen on his head because this is a man who, since 2015, has responded to all the requests of investigators, has made himself available to contribute to the manifestation of the truth. This is a man who was present at the simulation last September. Without explaining anything to him, they turned him from a witness who helps the justice system to do its job into the number one suspect, and even the only suspect," he began angrily on the set of the programme.
He added:
"This police custody is about a man who has already told us everything. Since he has said everything, he is even more vulnerable than all the suspects who are in police custody. We came very close to a judicial error. Perhaps the greatest judicial error of the last twenty years."
"If this man's name had ever been revealed - this risk still exists - imagine what his life would have been like! If this man had not trusted me, I say that this man might be in prison now. The director of the investigation explained to my client that their opinion had totally changed between the moment they placed him in custody and the moment they told him that his custody was over," the lawyer continued, specifying that "for the justice system, there were reasons that justified this placement in custody."
"If my client had not followed my defence strategy and trusted me, he would probably be in prison as we speak (...)
My client does not remember having crossed paths with a cyclist. He is not sure of anything. My client has not seen a crime scene," the biker's lawyer explained. He pointed out that, for him, the sketch circulating "does not resemble my client, there is no resemblance at all."
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That is one very angry lawyer in the video.
They brought him in to make him crack!
The interviewer JMM says that the biker passed the future location of the crime, went down hill and crossed the cyclist who 2 minutes later came upon that crime scene, and the crime cannot have happened in 2 minutes!
The lawyer goes BOOM! and replies that the system relies on testimonies of people and what they remember, and that the margin of error is wide.
JMM:... and he hasn't seen his robot picture for two years...
Lawyer: .... well I defend this man and this morning is the first time that
I have seen this picture!
Lawyer also mentions - if I hear it well- that the biker wasn't asked about the noise or the sound of bullets
Also, the helmet is NOT the helmet this man had in 2012.
JMM: are you saying that in your opinion there must have been another biker [resembling the robot picture]?
Lawyer has no idea, only knows that the picture is 'a biker', but not his client. I do not know the files, so I am not going to speak about them. But there are a lot of hypothesis, and that is dangerous.
Legal aspects of the 'garde à vue' are discussed with another lawyer.