Athanor trial: Freemasons engaged in legal practices earlier than the Paris Assizes | EUROtoday

It is an unlimited trial which opens on Monday March 30 beneath the identify, Athanor, of a lodge of Freemasons who’ve turn into sponsors of barbouzeries: 22 folks shall be tried for 3 and a half months by the Paris Assize Court, for a mess of details together with assassination.

Soldiers from the international companies, a former home intelligence police officer and enterprise leaders face life imprisonment for having fomented a legal pact which led to the premeditated homicide of a automotive driver, and the assassination makes an attempt of a “yellow vest” commerce unionist and a enterprise coach.

The investigation, with drawers, begins with the failed assassination of the latter, Marie-Hélène Dini, on July 24, 2020. The two troopers arrested close to her house declare to have been manipulated: they thought they had been focusing on a Mossad agent on behalf of the French state.

Marie-Hélène Dini shouldn’t be a spy, however has an enemy in her skilled teaching surroundings: Jean-Luc Bagur, arms collector and “worshipful master” of the Athanor masonic lodge, primarily based in Puteaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and since dissolved. “I was very lucky, it made it possible to stop a certain number of actions, but it had serious consequences on my life,” she confided to AFP.

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A “perfectly compartmentalized” double life

For “70,000 euros excluding taxes”, based on the investigation, Jean-Luc Bagur, now 69 years previous, entrusted the mission of eliminating his competitor to a different “brother”, Frédéric Vaglio.

This 53-year-old entrepreneur is accused of being the middleman between the sponsor and the perpetrators of a mess of crimes and misdemeanors, carried out by a 3rd member of Athanor: Daniel Beaulieu, a retiree from the central directorate of inner intelligence (DCRI, which has since turn into DGSI).

The former agent, now aged 72, transformed to financial intelligence, led a double life earlier than his arrest “perfectly partitioned” between his two companions of 20 years. He turns into an middleman order giver inside Athanor with a view to all types of mischief, and particularly an assassination which he’ll describe as a “blunder” to investigators.

The community’s “missions”, more often than not entrusted to Daniel Beaulieu by Frédéric Vaglio, are rising: assault and theft of a pc by a pretend pizza supply man, hearth in a automotive, lifeless rats left in a backyard, assault on an elected official…

Until the assassination, in November 2018, of racing driver Laurent Pasquali for debt restoration, the primary “homo” mission (for murder, editor’s observe) entrusted to Sébastien Leroy, armed wing of Daniel Beaulieu, who additionally faces life imprisonment.

This safety agent, keen about espionage, admitted in police custody to being the perpetrator of many of the assaults, thefts, assassinations and tried murders, explaining that he had been “progressively manipulated” by Daniel Beaulieu, who had provided him the chance to turn into an “informant for domestic intelligence”.

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“Everyone plays the game of controlling the other”

In this case, “each plays the game of controlling the other”, notes Me Jean-William Vezinet, Marie-Hélène Dini’s lawyer. “What was terrifying for my client is that the protagonists – police officers, ex-DGSI, freemasons – are precisely people supposed to act for the good of society,” he provides.

The failure of his assassination put an finish to a different morbid venture orchestrated by Vaglio, Beaulieu and Leroy: the elimination of the commerce unionist and “yellow vest” Hassan Touzani, deemed “annoying” by his employers, who had been additionally referred to the legal courtroom.

“Sébastien Leroy made the choice to explain himself five years ago and will continue on this path during the hearing,” his attorneys, Archibald Celeyron and Antoine Ory, guarantee AFP.

Athanor, “they are first of all individuals inhabited by a feeling of omnipotence”, analyzes Me Dylan Slama, Hassan Touzani’s lawyer, who says he has “many questions to ask” of the accused.

Daniel Beaulieu may need issue answering it: his suicide try in detention left him handicapped with “impaired ability to concentrate”, based on his lawyer, Me Marc Pantaloni.

With AFP