The karachi gate
I am going to talk about the Karachi affair.
At first I am gonna present the karachi attack and the first investigating time. Then I going to present why the Karachi affair is called Karachi Gate and show you the difficulties of this affair.
On the 8 of mai 2002, an attack killed 14 people in Karachi, and 11 of them were french people working in a naval construction. The coach carriyng them was bombeb.
They were employees of DNC(formerly called the Direction Technique des affaires Navales), who is a naval defense company. They were in Pakistan to honor the Agosta contract, in a technology transfert Program.
The investigation was quickly assigned to the anti-terrorist judge Bruguiere JL following the trail of Islamic extremists to find the perpetrators.
In Pakistan, they followed the same Track.
Al quaida runway was quickly followed, and 3 persons were judged from 2003.
But the Pakistani (investigation) was not able to be correctly brought a successful conclusion, then French passed on the important information in Pakistani.
Indeed, a bomb on a diplomatic car had been found
And
a suitcase containing all the information on the logistics of DCN in Pakistan had been stolen.
And French authorities never warned pakistani police about these important elements.
It was a hubuesque trial, the trial was adjourned 10 because of improbable elements For example " the lawyer of one of the defendants has been stabbed in the prison ".
Or still, " one day, one of the prisoners was untraceable in the prison ". No body was abble to find him
In 2009, a trial of appeal relaxed the suspected terrorists, the judges of appeals refusing to support the manipulation of the proofs in first authorities. And because confessions of several witnesses had been extorted under the torture.
But, the french instruction was stunning. Indeed, 5 years of instruction passed by without news.
A fall in the progress of