Olivier Metzner

Olivier Metzner ( born November 22, 1949 in Champ- skin, Normandy, † probably March 17, 2013 near the Ile de Boëdic in the Gulf of Morbihan) was a French lawyer.

Life

Olivier Metzner was the son of a Protestant peasant family in Champ- skin. The Metzner family had immigrated in the 19th century from Prussia. Metzner had a working as a scientist brother and a sister working as a teacher.

Metzner was a member of the Paris Bar since 1975. Like other great lawyers of his generation, such as Hervé appointment, Pierre Haïk or Patrick Maisonneuve, he first specialized in the defense of large and small offenders. The growing importance of criminal law in the business world opened up to him in the 1980s, a field of activity in economic criminal law.

He defended the former CEO of Elf Aquitaine, Loïk Le Floch - Prigent, in order to process the Elf affair, and later Jacques Crozemarie, President of the French Society for the fight against cancer ( association de lutte contre le cancer ), the expense because of infidelity of his society Court stood. In 2009 he participated in the defense of Dominique de Villepin in Clearstream affair. In 2010 he caused a sensation with his aggressive defense of Jérôme Kerviel, who had taught as a merchant bank Societe Generale losses in the billions. Effective audience threw Metzner the bank a substantial complicity in the corporate derailment before.

In the same year he represented Françoise Bettencourt- Meyers, daughter of L' Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, in their lawsuit against the photographer François -Marie Banier. He had received from the venerable company heiress nearly a billion euros in the form of cash gifts. The daughter accused him of having taken advantage of the emotional weakness of the aged mother in a dishonest way. He also defended in court in Vilnius singer Bertrand Cantat the accused and ultimately convicted of manslaughter of Marie Trintignant.

In major business processes, he represented major corporate clients, particularly

  • Continental Airlines in the process to the Concorde disaster;
  • The ship's classification society RINA in the process to fake papers of the damaged oil tanker Erika.

2010 acquired Metzner the Ile de Boëdic in the Gulf of Morbihan, but already in 2012 he again offered for sale. In the night of 16 to 17 March 2013, ran out of his boat; the morning of March 17, his body was found adrift in the Gulf of Morbihan. In his house an extensive document was found, in which he had settled his estate to the details. Unconfirmed reports that Metzner said to have committed suicide.

Swell

  • Le Monde / AFP: Mort d' Olivier Metzner: l' autopsy confirme son suicide, Le Monde, March 18, 2013
  • Pascale Robert - Diard: Olivier Metzner, derrière l' avocat, l' homme secret, Le Monde, March 18, 2013
  • Kim Willsher: French lawyer Olivier Metzner Top 's body found near private Iceland, The Guardian, March 17, 2013
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