Overview
- Bernard Bajolet is on trial in Bobigny for complicity in attempted extortion and arbitrary deprivation of liberty over a 2016 encounter at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.
- Bajolet told the court he approved the idea of an interview with Alain Dumenil but insisted he never authorized any form of coercion, acknowledging that “things did not happen as they should.”
- A declassified account from the DG-P unit describes a roughly six-minute meeting in which agents showed photos of Dumenil and his family; the operatives’ identities remain classified as secret-défense.
- Prosecutors say the aim was to recover about €15 million the DGSE claims Dumenil owes from disputed transactions linked to the service’s historically held private patrimony, a claim the defense frames as outside Bajolet’s executional role.
- The prosecutor requested a six- to eight-month suspended sentence and asked that any conviction not be recorded on Bajolet’s criminal record, with the short trial set to conclude Friday.