Overview
- Bernard Bajolet filed an appeal after his January 8 conviction to a one-year suspended sentence for complicity in attempted extortion and arbitrary deprivation of liberty.
- The conviction stems from a 2016 encounter at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle in which men identified as DGSE agents pressured businessman Alain Dumenil to repay €15 million.
- Prosecutors asked for a four-year prison term for a former DGSE engineer accused of extracting and delivering classified data to a German start-up, with a verdict set for February 23; the defendant denies any offense and says his new role involved radio-frequency links.
- The DGSE rated the breach “five out of five” in severity and the DGSI says about 16 GB of data were seized, including files marked secret or confidentiel-défense, while the prosecutor acknowledged they cannot prove any transmission to the employer in open court.
- In a related internal-security case, a DGSI IT technician who exfiltrated over 12,000 files, including 226 classified, received a 15-month suspended sentence.