From the long tunnel of confinement to the light of freedom, there is sometimes only the space of a few meters. When, on October 12, Laurent Garel’s escort took off his handcuffs at the hearing, the mobster tried the improbable: he suddenly freed himself and managed to clear his way with his shoulders. to the street before being caught in extremis on the forecourt of the Lyon Court of Appeal. The same morning, the man had been extracted from the Corbas remand center for a hearing of his request for release made by his lawyer before the investigating chamber. Without any illusions about the result, the prisoner had no doubt judged that in terms of freedom, as for any other essential thing in life, you are never better served than by yourself.
“I do the same job as the police”
After this vain attempt – which earned him two additional years of imprisonment, a recent judgment which he appealed – here he is this Friday, February 4 …