NARRATIVE – The prosecutor has requested 7 years in prison for this young man who took advantage of “whatever the cost” to afford a life as an Instagrammer in Dubai.
PA7’s latest photos on Instagram show him smiling near a fluorescent pool, or holding a dolphin in his arms, his face reddened by the sun. The photos were taken in Dubai. Last vestiges of an expensive life that the young man was able to afford, the space of a few months. “Knowledge costs more than money“, reads the caption of his profile on the social network, followed by”(In jail now)”, chains emoji.
PA7, whose real name is Paul Antony, experienced the brutal rise and fall, as his lawyer pleaded this Thursday in the Paris court, for the fourth day of hearing in this case which mixes embezzlement of public funds and fraud of the French state. Because for months,the influencer” to some 11,000 subscribers on Instagram instrumentalized the “covid aids» put in place by the State to finance his fantasized life of young fortune.
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