Love & lies in cop trial

PREHAPS HE was swept up by the “City of Love.”

An NYPD sergeant was continuously courting a French woman who was a suspect in a Brooklyn slaying — leading him to lie in her husband’s murder trial, a prosecutor testified Friday.

The bombshell allegation came at the perjury trial of Bobby Hadid, 45, who acted as interpreter when officers traveled to Paris in 2007 to interrogate Leila Grison and her husband, Marien Kargu. Grison was being eyed as a co-conspirator for helping Kargu dump the body.

He was initially asked, “Did you ever see her after cross-examination?”

“He flew to France twice” to meet the woman after the arrest of her husband, charged the assistant district attorney who tried Kargu, recalling the accused killer’s defense lawyer had told her the officer “had a slew of contacts” with Grison.

“She was a suspect who we would have prosecuted,” Melissa Carvajal testified at Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Hadid translated the interrogation of Kargu and Grison, who were wanted for the 2001 death of their roommate, Angelo Guzzardi. The couple confessed that the husband killed the man and his wife helped dispose of the body.

Kargu stood trial two years ago — getting convicted for manslaughter and sentenced to five to 15 years in prison — while Grison could not be extradited because she’s a French citizen.

Hadid testified at that trial that he only spoke to the woman during police questioning, but under cross-examination had to concede their communications went beyond that.

In one email, he signed off in French, “I kiss you and see you later,” according to one translation.

Carvajal claimed the defense introduced “the least salacious” communication because “the defendant did not want other things to be said about his wife at trial.”

Kargu’s lawyer, William Martin, did not dispute that account.

“At no time was she unfaithful to her husband,” he said of Grison. “But this cop was making overtures.”

Hadid’s lawyer, Andrew Quinn, said his client, who was then assigned to the prestigious Joint Terrorism Task Force, was simply confused on the stand because he speaks 17 languages with English the last one he learned. The testimony was far from crucial, he added.

“This is a case where the district attorney got caught off guard because the defense attorney had information that she didn’t,” Quinn said at the opening of the bench trial. “And he made her witness look bad.”