15-month sentence for theft of exam topics
15 months suspended for medical student who stole the exam topics
A medical student who had organized trafficking of stolen examination papers and sold thousands of dollars to greedy comrades success , was on Tuesday sentenced to fifteen months suspended sentence by the criminal court of Bobigny .
Mickaël , 26, had admitted selling to students of Paris XIII, there are three years of partial subjects of medicine, including the dreaded first year, where nearly nine out of ten students fail .
He was sentenced in accordance with the prosecution case Rémi chair , which had stressed during the hearing that Mickaël ” was no longer a medical student, (but) became subjects of bargaining to communicate to a large and hungry market .”
It will not appeal . “My client wants to move on ( …) It is very hard for him ,” said his lawyer Nadine Olszer .
Six other former students were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to eight months in prison suspended for accepting proposals and / or other touted young to share the cost of the investment.
Everyone will pay one euro in damages to the Faculty of Medicine , who was a civil party .
Failed and “under pressure” from his parents wanted him to become a doctor , had told Mickaël first be switched to act casually . He had the first three years and two second year medical when he found himself one evening in an office of the university administration in Bobigny where subjects are kept open because a maid working there .
It gets results “excellent” to partial the following: “For the first time I had a call from my father to tell me he was proud of me,” he had reported to the court.
This is the next semester it is launched in traffic. Mickaël is again the key officers of the college, he approach clients on Facebook , calls with a device that changes the voice and even threatens some change their notes to make them fail if they do not pay , suggesting that he had long arms.
“My client , repeatedly threatened , acted under the influence of stress ,” responded Denis Bracka , lawyer of one of the defendants sentenced Tuesday to eight months suspended sentence . ” The penalty that has been made is very severe and even disproportionate to his conduct in this matter,” he felt , saying explore the possibility of appeal.
A prospective clients, Mickaël ad immediately a price of 250,000 euros. In the end, the price paid is much lower : some transactions, the largest of which still reached 6,000 euros , delivered partly in cash in a parking lot of McDonald’s .
Why this traffic ? “I had just got engaged , I was always at the expense of my parents, I feel guilty asking them money ,” said the young man. According to him, his stepfather repeatedly told him : “I do not expect a smicard for my daughter, I expect a surgeon with a Porsche and a flat in Neuilly .”
Since the facts , most fraudsters arrested medicine, as Mickaël , who moved to Israel to study there “business “.
By AFP published on 22/10/2013 at 16:48