Perseguidor del impulso

“ Affaire of Plévin ” is the name given to a flight of explosives to Plévin, in the south of the Coast-with Armor, and its legal continuations. A lawsuit took place before the Court of Assizes especially made up of Paris in June 2005.

The business is related to the attacks of Brittany 1993-2000, in particular the explosion with the Mac Donald's of Quévert (a death), the degradations made with that of Pornic, and an assassination attempt against a post office to Rennes. These facts were judged in March 2004 by the Court of Assizes especially made up of Paris.

Several of these facts marked the public opinion; they continue to give place to several controversies. Two lawsuits took place in front of a special court with Paris, in March 2004 for the file " Attacks Brittany 1993-2000" and in June 2005 for the file " Flight of explosives of Plévin ". Partial calls are on standby of judgment in these two files of continuations, the first on the initiative of the parquet floor (" Attacks Brittany 1993-2000"), the second on the initiative of one condemned (" Business of Plévin ") always in front of " Courts of Assizes of call especially composées".

Business of Plévin

Flight of explosives

On Tuesday, September 28, 1999, at six o'clock in the morning, a seven commando to ten armed and masked people, whose woman, is introduced into an explosives magazine of careers of the Titanite company to Plévin. The terrorists bind, muzzle and lock up the drivers who come to take their service. The warning system did not function.

The commando flies more than eight tons of explosives, 5000 detonators and of the kilometers of detonator fuse, and leave the places at 8 a.m. The personnel gives alarm. A helicopter of the gendarmerie flies over the area, in vain. The antiterrorist section of the parquet floor of Paris (directed by Irene Stoller) is immediately seized. Very quickly, the Basque assumption is presented like most probable, because the members of the commando expressed themselves with a foreign accent, and that one of them would have launched to the one of its accomplices “Venga! ” (what can result in particular in “Go! ”, in Spanish).

According to the declarations of the manager of the company, would have been stolen:

7 725 kg of dynamite (Titadyn 30A)
400 kg of nitrate,
11 100 meters of detonator fuse,
4 612 electric detonators,
1 142 pyrotechnical detonators.

The media give very variable quantities.

To the civilian, before the especially composed Court of Assizes, the company is far from obtaining the totality of required repairs.

Dynamite is of Austrian origin, its manufacture is former to the ratification (July 1999) by the Austria of the agreements for the chemical marking of the explosives; in France, the police services and of justice affirmed a long time that in fact stolen explosives with Plévin have were used for Quévert and in attacks mortals in Spain (declarations of Mrs Irene Stoller it Calvé, procureure with the antiterrorist parquet floor of Paris, Quévert, on April 19th, 2000 at the beginning of afternoon, mentioned in the media, in their editions dated April 20th, 2000). The Spanish official services are much less affirmative; thus, the 1700 kilos of explosives seized by Guardia Civil in December 1999 do not come from Plévin.

With the lawsuit of the flight in June 2005 to Paris, questioned by the President at the request of Denez Riou, a French police officer declares that the traces of the bombs having exploded do not make it possible to say if they are well stolen explosives with Plévin on September 28th, 1999, confirmed by an expert testifying under oath.

Arrest of militants of ETA

On Wednesday, September 29, 1999, with Idron, a suspect light van is located by the police officers near a residential house, on one rensignement coming from the local gendarmerie. A couple is intercepted whereas it leaves in middle of the night the house in the car, then another man, with motor bike. Two other people manage to leave the house without being located. Their vehicle, Kangoo, having broken down, they give up it and steal a car to flee. The three stopped people are identified: it is about Jon Bienzobas, 29 years, and Francisco Segurola Mayoz, 44 years, members of active commandos of ETA, sought by the police forces Frenchwoman and Spanish. The young woman stopped in their company is militant cultural well-known with the Basque Country, Mariluz “Argi” Perurena, 28 years. It is it which would have rented the house of Idron.

The following day, Thursday, September 30: Denez Riou, 45 years, publication director of the monthly magazine Breton Combat is challenged with Lanester: it would have lodged the commando of Plévin and ensures its logistics. A little later Richard Faucheux, tenant in title of the apartment where the commando would have been lodged, is challenged with Lorient; he will be discharged in June 2005. Charlie Grall, 46 years, person in charge of Breizh Information , is stopped whereas it takes glass in a coffee carhaisien with friends. With Biarritz, a couple is stopped: the woman, Sylvie de Artola, would be owner of a car used by the commando to go in Brittany. and.

Discovered explosives

Very early on September 30th, 1999, in the house of Idron, the police force (DNAT) finds 2,5 tons of explosives flights the two days before in Brittany, as well as the near total of the cords explosives and 4.600 detonators.

The same day, with Séglien, of the Dynamite, the Nitrate, the detonators and the rollers of detonator fuse are found in a light van.

These explosives are not mentioned in the expert report.

On Thursday, October 14, 1999, towards 9:30, the French gendarmes find a truck of the Titanite company in the district of Bordeaux - Country house.

In December 1999, the arrest of Arno Vannier makes it possible to find an minor amount of explosives. It is the same following the arrest of Paskal Laizé in May 2000.

Between on December 21st, 1999 and on March 25th, 2002, the Civil Guardia, the Policia Nacional and other Spanish services of police force recover 657,5 kilograms of concealed explosives with Plévin

At the end of November 2000, ARB restores 98,2 kilos of explosives and 440 detonators, as well as a fusing Birambeau, similar to those used by the group dismantled in the area of Fougères, radically different from that which caused the explosion mortal of Quévert.

It is the police force which finds them in forest with Perret (Coast-with Armor) following an anonymous telephone call, according to the official version. It is Thiel judge in person who receives them by on the spot meeting two militants who give all these materials to him, according to the journalists Alain Cabon and Erwan Chartier. This restitution will start a polemic between militants.

Arrests of Breton nationalist militants

The Friday the 1st er October 1999, Alain Solé, 47 years, militant of Emgann, is challenged in its residence with Fougères. It is suspecté to have lodged the commando of Plévin. As opposed to what could say the press at the time of its arrest, Alain Solé was not continued to have lodged Basques, but to have rented a truck whose investigation establishes that it was not used with the flight or the evacuation of the stolen explosives.

On Thursday, October 14, the French gendarmes find with Bordeaux - Country house a truck of the Titanite company which would have been used to transport part of the concealed explosives to Plévin.

September 23rd, 1999, Charlie Grall and Denez Riou are photographed by the General informations in company of Basque militants sought by the police force, in particular Axier Oiarzabal Txapartegi.

Article 40 of the Criminal procedure code

The General informations and their colleagues of DNAT say to have identified the Basques the shortly after the appointment of Shamrock, that is to say on September 24th. The person in charge of the General informations known as to have warned to him even the chief of DNAT Roger Marion this day there. Their identification makes it possible to say that some of them are sought by Spanish justice (mandate of international stop) and by its counterpart Frenchwoman (the judge Laurence the Green had launched a warrant for arrest against the Basque Axier Oiarzabal Txapartegi in the month of May 1999). The criminal procedure code (article 40) known as: " Any authority made up, any public officer or civil servant who, in the performance of his duties, acquires the knowledge of a crime or an offense is held to deliver opinion without delay to the public prosecutor and to transmit of them to this magistrate all the information, official reports and acts which are relatifs" there;.

These required men are thus identified on September 24th. With the question put by the president, with the lawsuit of the month of June 2004, a person in charge of the General informations on the attitude of the police officers after the identification of the Basques, the answer was: " One lost sight of the fact them, they had disparu".

Waiting of the red-handed

Perhaps the police officers wished to stop these people in " Red-handed ". The service of the General informations the reference mark with Lorient in the Morbihan, it identifies them, but loses sight of the fact them two days before the flight of explosives of Plévin. They are found the following day with Idron in the Yrénées-Atlantiques, and that thanks to information coming from a " crédible" source; that the police force makes a point of keeping anonymous.

A " source; sure and confidentielle"

In 1999, the police chief Roger Marion was chief of DNAT. It is him which is responsible for the police operations after the steering of the explosives magazine. Called with the bar like witness at the time of the lawsuit, whereas he had initially refused to come, he will remain there only little of time, affirming not to be able to answer the questions which were posed to him, his only certainty being the credibility of the “sure and confidential source”, from where monitoring of the house of Idron where the Basque defendants of the flight of Plévin were located. He does not specify since when this house was supervised. Its version of the “sure and confidential” source does not correspond to that given by his/her colleague of the General informations. The Basque commando could located when it prepared his cushy job with Idron. The police force could follow it until in Brittany. It then challenged everyone in a procedure of " Red-handed " by including there the Breton ones met starting from September 23rd, date of the appointment with Lorient. Thus, the dedicated services of anti-terrorism neutralize a located commando of ETA and at the same time wet the most radical part of the Breton movement, the attacks of Belfort and Cintegabelle still not having been elucidated.

A structured organization as is presented ETA conscientiously prepares its cushy job as from the moment even where it decides to make an action of the extent of the flight of explosives of Plévin.

The intervention of the police force with Idron and Lorient to challenge the commando and lodging them and with Biarritz to challenge conducting vehicle which had led the commando in Brittany are fast and simultaneous.

Police surveillance

According to the file of charge, the Breton militants were supervised since the month of July 1999.

The prosecuting attorney made quote several persons in charge of the police force. According to them, always according to the monitorings carried out on the Breton militants before with the flight of explosives, Denez Riou, Christian Georgeault and a third man not identified met in a coffee of Carhaix, and that twice, 19 and on September 21st. One of the dates given by the police force is one Sunday, but this bar is closed every Sunday since strong a long time. No official report, not of notes written on the behavior of these go. The third nobody nest not identified. These police officers had come especially from Paris. Christian Georgeault domiciled with Fougères, in Ille-et-Vilaine Denez Riou with Caudan, in the Morbihan, and they are found with the third man with Carhaix (Finistere). They are supervised, each one on its side: the two spun militants find themselves with Carhaix 19 and on September 21st, 1999. No photograph of these meetings appears in the file. The charge makes use of the assertions of the police officers to support " its criminal conspiracy within the framework of a company terroriste". Information of the civils servant of the head office of the General informations to their colleagues of DNAT is only oral. and.

In the file of Plévin, there are of them a half-dozen, catches on September 23rd, 1999 with Lorient at the same time, around 6 p.m., at the same place, the pub " Shamrock" . Denez Riou would have met " Argi " Perurena in a restaurant located close to Carhaix, with the Moustoir. Denez Riou already affirms to have been there, but only; considering its profession, it often moves in all the Brittany. The investigators passed in this restaurant after the flight of explosives of Plévin and collected testimonys of the owner and an employee of this establishment. These testimonys overpower Denez Riou. For this reason it will make quote the restorer with the lawsuit. It is with back-plate that it will be presented to the audience. With the audience, initially, she does not want to answer the questions of the president of the court. Then, she refuses to confirm the statements made to the police officers and will say not to recognize anybody among the defendants.

The charge affirms that Denez Riou required of Alain Solé to rent a truck, and to bring it to Lorient, which would have been made. The truck however would not have been used in the flight of Plévin. It is what Alain Solé said to the investigators then in the examining magistrate, on the councils of his lawyer of the time, Maître Yann Choucq. Denez Riou is thus the accomplice of the flight according to the charge. Alain Solé, during the lawsuit of the month of June 2004, always admits well having rented this truck, but affirms that it is at the request of an other person, not Riou, but a friend of Rennes, to which it brought it. He recovered it the following day since the truck was not useful and will help another militant, Arno Vannier, to move. Alain Solé denies to be gone itself with Lorient. and.

Attacks in Brittany

Between 1993 and 2000, forty attacks are made in Brittany. It is probable that at least another group of the Breton revolutionary Armée (ARB) is responsible for certain of these actions. The continuations thus concentrate on the group dismantled in the area of Fougères.

The April 14th 2000, an assassination attempt would have taken place against the McDonald's of Pornic (Loire-Atlantique). This business remains very discussed.

The April 19th 2000, Laurence Turbec, an employee of the McDonald's of Quévert is killed by a bomb. A few hours later, the procureure Irene Stoller directs the investigation and the media towards ARB, affirming that the explosives used come from stolen stock with Plévin. It is the first time that an attack allotted to the Breton terrorists kills a person not directly concerned, the two preceding victims being person who plants bombs. The media hold for acquired the culpability of the people stopped starting from May 2nd, 2000. The SRPJ of Rennes lance a call to the possible witnesses who can telephone a " line rouge" opened for the circumstance. Denez Riou lance of the bottom of its cell an solemn appeal with the autodissolution of ARB, without implying it in the attack.

January 29th, 2002, the judge Gilbert Thiel, first examining magistrate, then in load of two relative files to the imprisoned Breton militants, joint businesses of McDonald's of Pornic and Quévert, the assassination attempt against the post office of the Mitterrand email to Rennes (April 2000), and various material attacks (succeeded or missed) made in Brittany between 1993 and 2000.

The charge rests on the following bases:

a fraction extremist gauchist took the capacity in Emgann and ARB since 1998, by ejecting a “historical” militant, Yann Puillandre, much more moderate;
Breton Combat had published hostile articles at McDonald's in December 1997, November 1998 and September 1999;
the stolen explosives with Plévin are perfectly traçables, including when they exploded: these are the explosives which were used for Pornic, Rennes and Quévert;
the corrosion of the gendarmeries of Nantes and Guémené-Penfao, asserted by ARB, and that of the McDonald's of Quévert, not asserted, make ARB suspect of the bomb attack of Quévert;
the explosion in the McDonald's of Pornic in the night from April 13rd to 14th 2000;
DNA of a living militant with Rennes was found on the machine discovered in front of a post office of this city.

On Sunday, April 30, in the True Newspaper (on Canal+), Karl Zero affirms being in possession of an official statement of the ARB which asserts an attack against a perception with Argentré-of-Plessis the and an attempt against the McDonald's of Pornic; she contradicts any responsibility with Quévert.

The members of the board of directors of the cultural Conseil of Brittany launch the call Brittany, it is the life - Breizh rear diouzh you vuhez , following the Attentat of Quévert, calling with the abandonment of violence and a walk symbolic system.

In June 2000, the interpellation of two people with Tréméven involves the creation of the " Collective of Women against the methods of brutal and disproportionate interpellations on behalf of the police force, and respect of the rights of the children and the femmes".

Rennes and Quévert: the progressive erosion of the charge

Gradually, this screen will be reduced, and this very often without the observers and the public opinion not realizing there.

At the beginning of July 2000, whereas it is put in examination for the facts to Pornic, Rennes and Quévert, the journalist Solenn Georgeault is put in Bail.

Shots against:

the Gendarmerie squad of Guémené-Penfao, on September 1st, 1999,
the Regional center of information and recruitment of the National police of Nantes, in the night from February 15th to 16th 2000,
the Mac Donald of Quévert, in the night from March 8th to 9th 2000,

are isolated file carried before the Court of Assizes.

They are not the “gauchists” who published in “Breton Combat” dated December 15th, 1997 a hostile article with Mc C ( " Should Mac Donald's be burned? " ), but a militant of Emgann " opposed to the drift gauchiste" who signs " Y.P." , i.e. Yann puillandre.

. In addition, the text published in November 1998 (dimension D 176) is the reproduction of a leaflet which largely circulates and which does not emanate from Emgann. Lastly, the text published in September 1999 (dimension D 174) is the work of a " Collective anti Mac Do".

Jerome Bouthier and Solenn Georgeault obtain a withdrawal of case for Pornic, Quévert and La Poste of the Mitterrand email to Rennes, while Thiel judge requalifies the charges against Kristian Georgeault, Paskal Laizé, Stephan Philippe and Gaël Roblin in " complicity of assassinat" , without there being a " matériel" author; aimed.

DNA of Jerome Bouthier finally proves to be a DNA mitochondrial, i.e. it can belong to hundreds of people in the only area of Rennes. The police officers and the examining magistrate did not announce it to him: it is thus persuaded that it had the bag between the hands well, bag which he would have then given or who would have been stolen to him.

The expert reports on the explosives are submitted only in one fork between one month and three months and half after the reception of the request of the investigators. It is thus premature to be precise the very same day of the explosion on the origin of the explosives used. The testimony of a police officer and an expert at the time of the lawsuit " Plévin " in June 2004 reveal that it is impossible to establish the link between the explosives of stolen stock with Plévin and those which killed with Quévert: it is in particular impossible to know where and when the latter left the official circuit. The analysis shows that these explosives were indeed manufactured by the Austrian company, but the few remains of packing found on the spot are not marked any written.

Tréméven: two interpellations with discussed unfolding

" No newborn will be the subject of arbitrary or illegal interferences in his private life, his family, his residence or his correspondence, nor of illegal attacks to his honor and his reputation " , known as article 16 of the International convention of the rights of the child.

It is the interpellation of two people, to Tréméven, close to Quimperlé, which involves the creation of the " Collective of Women against the methods of brutal and disproportionate interpellations on behalf of the police force, and respect of the rights of the children and the women ".

The intervention of the police force is reported in a report published the following day: " Men with bullet-proof jacket, very of black vêtu version Ninja (…) For the basic witness, the scene is incredible. A man barechested, the dishevelled hair and the blocked hands emerges. He is framed by three men of GIPN. Those which know it, one immediately recognized. It is about Fanch Bideault, the companion of MariJo Mellouët. He also disappears in a car. Slappings of doors, gyrophares, horn two let us tons, squealings of tires. Apparently, tricolor fires, it is done for the others. And hop, it is finished. (…) A few minutes later, information is checked. A neighbor of the couple which lives in Kerlescouarn, with Tréméven, tells. " It was to be 5:45. I was awaked by noises. That resembled people who ran. I rose and I went to see what occurred. I then saw men in hood and helmeted who surrounded the house. There were also men as a civilian. In all, they were to be a score. (…) A few minutes later, MariJo which was accompanied by a woman came to entrust his/her two children to me. It is them which told me the continuation. The police officers, to enter, made steal in glares the door of glass (…) Then, they are assembled abruptly in the rooms before gathering everyone in the kitchen. Fanch had not had time to get dressed. It was framed by men who were helmeted and who carried a bludgeon. During nearly two hours, they excavated the basic house in comble."

The creation of the Collective women

It follows the interpellations of Tréméven and Saint-Nazaire and is thus justified: Many interpellations of Breton militants and people close to the Breton movement, have taken place in Brittany for several months. Many of these people were released since, after several days of Police custody. The arbitrary one, the violence and the disproportion of the last arrests (GIPN - men hooded, helmeted, armed, forcing the door at daybreak, this in the presence of the children) shocked the majority of the population. We, the women, refuse this violence and the setting in danger of our children. We refuse this will to seek to break the image of the parents to the eyes of the children by violating their intimacy. We refuse this new form of aggression. We want to protect our children from these authorized attackers, which have the right to frighten them. " Do not touch any more with our enfants" . We want to also do so that their rights are respected, that of the women and in a way more general than is applied the Human rights in France within the framework of the political matters (respect for human dignity during the interpellations, police custodies, detention) as well as the freedom of thought and expression. To this end, a " Collective of Women against the methods of brutal and disproportionate interpellations on behalf of the police force, and respect of the rights of the children and the women " is made up. The purpose of this collective is to denounce these violences, to make meet the women victims or not, to collect their testimonys, to inform on the rights, to help the women and the children to overcome this traumatism and to act so that family balance is respected. As regards the rights of the child and the woman, each one, militant or not, has its word to say and can bring its contribution.

The declaration of the " Four of Quévert "

May 6th, 2003, the four Breton separatist fighters accused of complicities in the Business of Quévert seek to diffuse a declaration of which here the text. The majority of the media refuse to mention it.

" Here are now three years, after the dramatic event of Quévert, that the French State launched a hunting to the witches against the Breton movement and particularly the Independence Left. After tens of arrests, searchings, police custodies, six among us were put in examination and imprisoned, presented like the authors of this act by a political community and a press quite in a hurry and not very concerned of the Présomption of innocence. Two among us were quickly released in front of the little of serious of the charges. Three years afterwards, that remains T there of an instruction exclusively led to load, nearer of the enquiry besides? The judge Thiel returned four among us for complicity without the least beginning of element, only on smoky extrapolations which lead it to return Gaël Roblin before the special Court of Assizes against the opinion of the charge which underlined on several occasions the lack of dependant elements, to return Kristian Georgeault for complicity by telepathy and ideological collusion with the authors not identified of this sad and mysterious event, returned Paskal Laizé and Stefan Philippe, which in addition recognized their membership of the ARB and their participation in actions having aimed only symbols of the French State in Brittany, for complicity whereas the expertises diligentées by the magistrate put them out of cause, the fusing of Quévert not corresponding to those which they used. We reaffirm here, as we did throughout the instruction, with force to be completely foreign with this action as well in its preparation as in its realization. The examining magistrate thus returns, in a spirit in favor, four innocent before a special Court of Assizes in order to continue to lamentably exploit the legitimate emotion which struck all the Breton ones and us consequently. He is sad to see exploited such a drama at basic ends policy. We are not easily deceived as for the length of our detentions, the purpose of it was only to frighten the militants of the independence movement and in particular youth; we will not say that this imprisonment is part of pleasure, but that should not prevent each one from engaging for a project which we regard as legitimate. The construction of a independent Brittany reunified, brittophone and made up Socialist women and free men so that our people find his right place in the concert of the nations. There were many political prisoners before us and let us greet we them and unfortunately there will undoubtedly be afterwards. We fully assume our engagement and only that Ci, that the French State wants to make us scapegoats, that remains its problem, after three years of resistance, combat and of insubordination, we remain upright, worthy and faithful to our convictions. Live the free Brittany and socialiste."

Paskal Width, Stefan Philippe, Gaël Roblin, Kristian Georgeault, Breton political prisoner.

Lawsuit " Attentats": the payment for Pornic and Quévert

During the lawsuit, the attack of Quévert is not allotted to ARB. The expertises appearing in the file show that the technique of assembly and the minutor used do not correspond to the various systems used by the group dismantled in the area of Fougères. March 26th, 2004, the special Court of Assizes of Paris thus pronounces the payment of the four Breton separatist fighters accused of complicities in the business of Quévert, which thus remains without culprit. DNA found on the machine recovered in front of the post office of Rennes is simple a DNA mitochondrial: it can thus be allotted to nobody in particular.

On the eleven marked ones continued for some of the seventeen attacks allotted to ARB, four are discharged and compensated, seven are condemned, all for " association of malfaiteurs" , and, for five of them, " attentats" materials. .

" Blamed scandaleuse"

The spokesperson of the antirépressive Coordination of Brittany (CARB) denounces immediately in a declaration with the AFP “four years of ashamed propaganda, four years of instruction policy only with load, four years of calling into question scandalous in the mysterious business of Quévert which is not solved, to arrive to this result” and concludes: “We will not forget”.

Certain media, which had charged the continued militants, and even certain people simply put in Police custody, did not give an account of the verdict.

Others omitted to recall that of April 1999 in March 2004, they systematically introduced the defendants like culprits.

Certain media affirm that " Breton militants were condemned for Quévert " , without quoting of names. An news agency controlled by the French State affirmed in December 2004 that Paskal Laizé had been condemned in this business.

Lawsuit of Plévin

October 9th, 2003, the examining magistrate Laurence the Green returns twelve Breton before the especially made up Court of Assizes. One of them, Hugues Richard, obtains a withdrawal of case in January 2004.

The lawsuit of five militants of ETA and ten Breton judged by the special Court of Assizes of Paris for the flight of eight tons explosives with Plévin (Coast-with Armor), opened on June 1st 2005, finishes the June 29th little before midnight. ARB received a share of the stolen explosives with Plévin. One year later, it will restore those which it still affirms to hold. It is the judge Gilbert Thiel in person who finds them, following an anonymous telephone call. This restitution will start a polemic between militants.

No Breton is then held at the time of the lawsuit within the framework of this file, except Richard Lefaucheux, who was réincarcéré not to have submitted, fault of financial means, with the convocation of the president of the Court of Assizes for a maintenance preliminary to the lawsuit. It spent on the whole five months in Detention pending trial. Discharged, it is then compensated.

The Breton defendants were freed in this file well before the lawsuit:

Jean-Charles Charlie Grall, on October 14th, 1999,
Richard Faucheux, on January 25th, 2000, réincarcéré in May 2004,
Bertrand Grimault, on September 29th, 2000,
Denez Riou, on December 22nd, 2000,
Alain Solé, on June 19th, 2001,
Gerard Bernard, on October 21st, 2002,
Arno Basket maker, on June 10th, 2002, réincarcéré to purge the remainder of its sorrow in the file " Attentats" ,
Kristian Georgeault, on September 26th, 2002, remained imprisoned to purge its sorrow in the file " Attentats".

Two of the defendants, Stephan Philippe and Paskal Laizé had not been placed in Detention pending trial in this penal file.

Some were suspected of having taken share with the attack of the warehouse of explosives, others are shown to have provided them a help active and profited from part of the spoils. Among lawyers of Breton, one finds Yann Choucq, Ronan Appéré, Isabelle Costing-Peyre, Henri Leclerc, Erwan Lorvellec. Me Yolanda Molina-Ugarte defends the Basques.

The verdict is returned on June 29th, 2005 little before midnight. The five Basques are condemned, with, for each one of them, total ban of the French territory:

Xavier Oiarzabal Txapartegi: 20 years; 30 years had been necessary;
Miren Perurena Pascual: 18 years, 25 years had been necessary;
Jon Bienzobas Arreche: 18 years, 20 years had been necessary;
Benito Martinez Vergara: 16 years, 18 years had been necessary;
Francisco Segurola Mayoz: 15 years; 18 years had been necessary.

Other Basques, whose case had been disjoins, were previously considered into correctional and were condemned to moderate sorrows.

Last nine Breton is condemned:

Gerard Bernard: 6 years for 8 years necessary;
Charlie Grall : 6 years for 6 years necessary;
Bertrand Grimault: 2 years for 5 years necessary;
Denez Riou, “chief of ARB” according to prosecuting attorney: seven years for eleven years necessary.

The five Breton ones already condemned for " illegal detention of explosifs" coming, according to the court, of the flight of explosives of Plévin, this time for " is condemned; concealment of explosifs" , with Concurrency of sentences: it is about Kristian Georgeault, Paskal Laizé, Stephan Philippe, Alain Solé and Arno Vannier; their lawyers see there a violation of the rule not (a) in idem .

An defendant, Richard Faucheux, is discharged, in accordance with the requisitions.

Defended by Me Yann Choucq of the bar of Nantes, Charlie Grall is condemned to six years of prison closes, as the Parquet floor requires it. It is only condemned to appeal.

Several media condemned

In Brittany, at the request of several defendants, of the wife and minors of the one of them, a person placed in Police custody without setting in examination and two militants blamed without the least reason, of the courts condemn different media for “Diffamation”, “reached with the Présomption of innocence”, “reached with the intimacy of the private life”, “the Point” (a judgment, TGI of Lorient), “Today in France Parisian the” (a judgment, TGI of Morlaix, “the Telegram” (two judgments, TGI of Morlaix, and TGI of Quimper), a pending transaction before the Court of Appeal of Rennes), “the Express train” (a judgment, TGI of Nantes), “Press-Ocean” (a judgment, TGI of Nantes). No moment, the parquet floor takes the initiative of the continuations which led to these judgments. Few procedures launched for " violation of the Secret of the instruction " and " concealment of violation of the Secret of the instruction " lead systematically to withdrawals of case, as Rennes on October 18th, 2005

Criticisms of the procedures anti-terrorists

In May 2001, several people estimating to be blamed wrongfully tackle the French State for serious dysfunction of the public service of justice . October 17th, 2007, the Court of Appeal of Angers allots to Philippe Bonnet, placed as a police custody in June 2000, owing to the fact that its situation of diabetic did not give place to special precautions, 7.000 € as damages and 2.000 € in accordance with article 700 of the Nouveau code of civil procedure. .

Three requests were deposited by Breton separatist fighters in front of the European Cour of the human rights with Strasbourg: Gerard Bernard, Gaël Roblin and Kristian Georgeault attacked the France in front of the European Cour of the human rights, for violation of articles 6 (paragraph 1), 7 and 13 of the European Convention of the human rights.

In August 2005, the European Court of the human rights request officially to the France to be explained following the request lodged with it by Gerard Bernard, Breton separatist fighter condemned to six years of prison in the file Plévin. Member of Emgann, it spent three years in Detention pending trial. The European Cour of the human rights condemned France for violation of article 5, paragraph 3, of the European Convention of the human rights to pour 3.250 euros with Gerard Bernard.

The Belgian lawyer Norbert Van Overloop estimated that “ the lawsuit was not equitable, initially because it is held far from the places of the facts and before a court of exception ” and that the times envisaged by the European Convention of the human rights between the facts and their examination “ are largely exceeded ”.

December 10th, 2001, at the time of a press conference held at the University of Rennes 2, Michel Tubiana, president of the League (French) of the Human rights (LDH) considers that " the times of completion of the takings of evidence are largely exceeded for the benefit of a systematic use of the exemptions envisaged as regards terrorisme" and that " the course of the procedures attests of an interpretation of the not very concerned law of individual freedoms and moves away from the regulations of the European Convention of the human rights " ; he announces the publication of a public protest (official statement of LDH relayed by CARB: ).

Amnesty International mentions the situation of Alain Solé in his ratios of 2003 and 2004: “Alain Solé was always in Detention pending trial (…) more than four years after its arrest, in 1999, for its participation in the supposed illegal activities of the Breton nationalist group Emgann. It underwent triple coronary bridging in a Parisian hospital in June. Diabetic, it would have become insulino-dependant in prison. The Room of the instruction of the Court of Appeal of Paris refused on several occasions its applications of setting in freedom”. The defenders of the continued militants also put the " miss soins" undergone, according to them, by Gerard Bernard and Paskal Width.

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