Michel Neyret (born 12 April 1956) is a former police chief of staff (2nd in command) of the Direction interrégionale de la police judiciaire de Lyon (the Lyon Central Detective Branch). He held this role up to his indictment in 2011 for various offences.
Michel Neyret | |
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| Born | 12 April 1956 |
| Occupation(s) | Commissaire de police Police chief assistant |
Life and career
editEarly life and education
editMichel Neyret was born and raised in Landres in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, the son of a miner.[1] He studied at the law department of the University of Lorraine in Nancy, where he graduated with a master's degree in 1978. Soon after, he passed the recruitment competition to become commissaire de police. (Police Commissioner)
Career as police officer
editHe began his career at the Regional Service of the Judicial Police of Versailles where he stayed for two years before becoming the police chief of the judicial service at the police station of Meaux.[2] Commissaire from 1983 to 2004 at the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of Lyon, he left the city in November 2004 to become the police chief of the judicial service at the police station of Nice and obtaining a promotion, becoming commissaire divisionnaire. He returned to Lyon in 2007, where he was chief of staff of the interregional director of judicial police.[3]
Having become a personality in the French National Police,[4] he was honoured Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 2004[4] for his outstanding work, especially for having participated at the arrest of a network of fanatic Muslims in the outskirts of Lyon in 1995 and having captured those who escaped the prison of Lyunes.
During his years of service, Michel Neyret has obtained a certain popularity in the French media and has also featured in the television program Zone Interdite on M6 in September 2011.[5] He has also inspired the film director Olivier Marchal for his film A Gang Story (2011)[6] and his television film Borderline (2015).[7][8]
Indictment and conviction for corruption
editHis name was spread in public when he was questioned and placed in custody on 29 September 2011 by the General Inspectorate of National Police (the 'police of the police'), being suspected of corruption in an illegal drug trade affair.[9][10] On 3 October 2011, after his custody, he was indicted for corruption, influence peddling, conspiracy,[11] illegal drug trade, embezzlement and violation of professional confidentiality, and was imprisoned at the famous La Santé Prison. After an appeal judgement in his favour, Michel Neyret was liberated on 23 May 2012.[12] He was placed under house arrest in the town of Toul in Meurthe-et-Moselle, and his driving licence is suspended.[13]
On 16 February 2012, on the television program Complément d'enquête broadcast on France 2, his wife Nicole Neyret confirmed that she attempted to join the Israeli mafia. He was relieved of his functions on 7 September 2012 by Manuel Valls, the then prime minister[14]
In May 2016, the prosecutor requested that Michel Neyret be sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment, with a suspended sentence of 18 months. On 5 July 2016, the Correctional court of Paris sentenced him to two and a half years of prison. His wife Nicole Neyret was sentenced to 8 months of prison for having taken advantage of the "friends" of her husband.[15]
Honours
editBibliography
edit- Richard Schittly (2016). Éditions Tallandier (ed.). Commissaire Neyret. Chute d'une star de l'antigang (in French). Editions Tallandier. p. 336. ISBN 9791021018457.
- Michel Neyret (2016). Plon (ed.). Flic (in French). p. 288. ISBN 9782259221443.
References
edit- ^ "À Nancy, Michel Neyret s'affiche en ville". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 29 September 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ^ "Procès Neyret : les ambiguïtés d'un super flic". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 17 May 2016.
- ^ Pascal Ceaux; Éric Pelletier (4 October 2011). "Michel Neyret, la chute d'un grand flic". L'Express (in French).
- ^ a b "Trajectoire d'un flic en première ligne". Le Progrès (in French). 30 September 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- ^ "Neyret, un "flic à l'ancienne" amateur de soirées people". Le Parisien (in French). 30 September 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ "Le commissaire qui avait inspiré le cinéaste Olivier Marchal". Le Progrès (in French). 30 September 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- ^ Édouard Farina (7 October 2015). "Borderline, France 2 : l'histoire vraie qui a inspiré Olivier Marchal". Télé Star (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ Emmanuelle Litaud (7 October 2015). "Borderline : France 2 au cœur de l'affaire Neyret". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Le numéro 2 de la police judiciaire lyonnaise en garde à vue". Le Figaro (in French). 29 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ "Corruption et stupéfiants: le n°2 de la PJ de Lyon en garde à vue". Libération (in French). 29 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
- ^ "Le commissaire Michel Neyret placé en détention provisoire". Le Figaro (in French). 3 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "Michel Neyret, l'ex-numéro 2 de la PJ de Lyon, est sorti de prison". Le Monde (in French). 23 May 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ^ "Manuel Valls révoque Michel Neyret, l'ex-No 2 de la PJ lyonnaise". Libération (in French). 7 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ^ "Le commissaire Michel Neyret révoqué par Manuel Valls". Le Monde (in French). 7 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ^ "L'ancien super-flic Michel Neyret condamné à deux ans et demi de prison ferme". L'Obs (in French). 5 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.