Iranian regime’s attempt to manipulate French Judiciary denounced

                    

CNRI- In an attempt to manipulate the French Judiciary, on behalf of a person who died nine years ago, an appeal was presented against a non-suit decision adopted after 13 years of judicial investigation in a case involving Iranian dissidents.

Text of statement by William Bourdon, 5 December 2014:

Thirteen years of investigation, especially against some members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), ended successively in two dismissal decisions in accordance with the prosecutor's submissions.

As to the first order of dismissal concerning the allegation of terrorism, the decision is final and no appeals were filed.

However, regarding the second dismissal on 16 September 2014 concerning various financial allegations, an appeal by a sole plaintiff Mr. Ziaedin ABDOLRAZAGHI was filed.

Mr. Ziaedin ABDOLRAZAGHI had pleaded in fact that over 10 years ago he had fallen victim to an impersonation by a supporter of the NCRI.

The totally whimsical nature of this civil action was elaborated on in detail at that time by the lawyers of the indicted.

It is emphasized that on 16 September 2014, the examining magistrate had evidently dismissed the impersonation charge pointing to the incredible gap between the various references of the complainant and those of the alleged usurper. The magistrate also reminded that the movements of the accused hardly match that of the plaintiff.

Moreover and specifically, the advocates of the accused have on numerous occasions pointed to the fact that all signs support this reality that this strange private plaintiff was only an instrument of the Iranian secret services.

This hoax is now totally uncovered since following several studies, it is now certain that Mr. Ziaedin ABDOLRAZAGHI died 9 years ago, in October 2005, as evidenced by a death certificate obtained from the British authorities.

The lawyers of the defendants, in their address to the Paris Court of Appeal, also pointed to the fact that requesting an appeal by someone dead 9 years ago is necessarily a manipulation [of the judicial system].

These facts by themselves deserve a proper investigation as they testify to the permanence of activism of the Iranian authorities in France in order to try to sustain, even at the cost of serious manipulations, the criminalization of the undersigned lawyers’ clients.

These facts must not go unanswered; and now the onus is on the French judicial authorities to draw all the conclusions from the above in determining the conditions under which a person, deceased nine years ago, could regularize an appeal against an order of dismissal that ended a process dating back over 10 years.