Blog: What the Prosecution wants on appeal - 2011-11-24
What the Prosecution wants on appeal November 24, 2011,
The prosecutor in the Paris appeal trial for organised fraud and the illegal practice of pharmacy wants to more than double the fines handed down to the two Scientology organisations convicted at the original trial.
The defendants and their lawyers walked out of the trial on appeal after the court rejected their procedural and legal objections.
So it was the prosecutor, Hugues Warhaye, who closed proceedings, setting out what penalties the state wanted to see the court impose on the defendants.
