By love, Patrick Antonelli committed the irreparable. At least, this is the version that the singer Amel Bent's husband gave at the helm of the Nanterre courthouse on Wednesday June 17, 2020. Indeed, the dad of his two little daughters, Sofia and Hana, was heard for more than four hours on the subject of driving license trafficking at the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture of which he is the investigator. For two years, Patrick Antonelli, former manager of a driving school in Neuilly-sur-Seine, issued false car and motorcycle driving licenses for sums of money. Yes Amel Bent prefers to remain discreet on this subject, her name was however mentioned during the hearing of her husband, as explained The Parisian. And for good reason, he said that his schemes were related to his wife …
"I fall in love with her but I want to be at the level …"
When he meets Amel Bent in 2013, Patrick Antonelli declares that "this is the beginning of the collapse". Crazy lover of the old candidate of The new star, he decides to do everything to appear as modest as possible in his eyes: "I fall in love with her, I have less means but I want to be up to date when we go out with people she frequents", he said at the bar. And so began the long process of driving license trafficking. The 42-year-old dad explains that he gave an appointment to a certain Rabiah B., a prefecture official: "In fact, she needed a driving school for filing driver's license applications. She immediately told me that she wanted 4000 euros per license."
If Amel Bent is not involved in this trial for "money laundering" and "corruption", she suffered collateral damage from the brunt. In an interview with 7 Days TV, the jury of The Voice confided in this difficult period: "I felt damaged by something that was out of control. I suffered, I felt judged. I was really at the bottom. I ended up with my daughter in places I didn't want to be. " After the trial, Patrick Antonelli faces ten years in prison for "active corruption" and a fine of up to one million euros.
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