Corruption trial Lamine Diack ex-boss World Athletics, postponed to June -  The trial of former president of the International Athletics Federation Lamine Diack, which opened in Paris on Monday, has been postponed for procedural problems. The Senegalese, arrested in 2015, targeted by corruption charges, faces up to ten years in prison.

The long-awaited audience will finally have started with a twist. The trial of Lamine Diack, former boss of world athletics, was postponed at least until June by the 32nd correctional chamber of the Paris court due to procedural problems, announced the president Rose-Marie Hunault shortly long after its opening, Monday January 13th.

The trial, which relates to a system of corruption intended to protect doped Russian athletes, is postponed in particular because Senegal sent "very recently" acts of investigation which had been requested by the examining magistrates in 2016 and to which Dakar had never responded before, it was clarified.

Corruption trial Lamine Diack ex-boss World Athletics

Among these elements, a hearing of the son of Lamine Diack, the former powerful marketing advisor of the IAAF Papa Massata Diack, a refugee in Dakar since the start of the investigations, and who has never responded to French justice. "PMD" is a key player in the case and was to be tried in his absence from Monday.

Items received a few hours before opening

"These documents, we received them physically this morning [...] could not study them", nor communicate them to the other parties, noted one of the financial prosecutors, Arnaud de Laguiche, showing the judges a heavy pile of files.

"We cannot pretend that these pieces do not exist," he added. The other financial prosecutor present at the hearing, Éric Russo, raised a second procedural problem in the international arrest warrant which had been issued by French justice against Papa Massata Diack.

Towards a trial in June

At 86, the Senegalese Lamine Diack, who reigned from 1999 to 2015 on the IAAF, had to answer for crimes of active and passive corruption, breach of trust and money laundering in an organized gang. He faces up to ten years in prison and a heavy fine.

Lamine Diack, who arrived at the arm of a close Monday mid-day, did not make a statement to journalists when entering the courtroom.

The president of the 32nd correctional chamber of the Paris court has hypothesized that the trial will now take place from June 3 to 22.

TRENDING: Several accidents on the A31, A3 and A4 this Monday morning

 An accident at the exit from Mondelange, another at Foetz and a third at Pontpierre caused major slowdowns.

"Like a Monday," say some. The usually heavy traffic in the morning is disrupted by several accidents on the motorways in the direction of Luxembourg City.

On the French side, it was at the Mondelange exit, on the A31 that an accident occurred shortly after 6am this morning. Aid was dispatched to the scene. The consequences were not long in coming: major traffic jams have formed.

If around 9am, the accident was cleared, at 9:45 am traffic was still dense on the A3, Luxembourg side.

In Luxembourg, the Automobile Club reported an accident on the A4 at 6.30 am at the Pontpierre exit, in the direction of the capital, involving two vehicles. Both cars are on the overtaking lane, causing a traffic jam going up to Esch, at the Raemerich roundabout.

On the south manifold (A13), it was at the ramp with the A4 at Foetz that an accident occurred around 6:45 am. Since 8:30 am, traffic has resumed.

Finally, three cars are involved in an accident on the A1, still in the direction of the city, in the climb of Munsbach where there was already a broken down truck. The track was cleared at 8 a.m. and traffic was able to resume.

All vehicles were cleared as the morning progressed and traffic was able to resume normally.