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Police chief gets suspended sentence

01 November 1991

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In August 1982, three Irish citizens, Stephen King, Michael Plunkett and Mary Reid, were arrested by a special anti-terrorist police squad in their flat in Vincennes, a Paris suburb. They were charged with possession of weapons but on 24 September 1991 a court accepted that the police had in fact planted the weapons. Among those found guilty was the police chief who is to take charge of security at the March 1992 winter Olympics. Christian Prouteau received a 15 month suspended sentence for 'orchestrating the whole affair', although at a court hearing last June, a Captain Barril claimed that the defence minister at the time, Charles Hernu who died in 1990, gave the go-ahead for the operation.

Irish News, 25.9.91.

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