In December 2019, two labor inspectors lodged a complaint with the Moûtiers gendarmerie for having been verbally assaulted by the co-manager of a company in Courchevel where they had gone in order to obtain information on sub-companies. foreign contractors working on a construction site.
According to the statements of officials, the respondent was immediately annoyed by their visit before being aggressive and then insulting by treating them in particular as a “Gestapo”. Inappropriate words which cost the 65-year-old man, Jean-François Chedal-Bornu, deputy mayor of Courchevel, criminal proceedings before the Albertville criminal court where he was tried, this Friday, March 19, for ” contempt of a control officer of the labor inspectorate “and” obstacle to the performance of the functions of a control officer “.
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“My words were aimed only at the institution and not at these two women”
At the bar, he conceded to have been “a little aggressive” but disputed the charges by maintaining that his remarks were aimed at the institution and not the controllers. “I could have taken another historical reference than the ‘Gestapo’ like the Inquisition for example, but my remarks were aimed only at the institution and not at these two women. Maybe I was a little aggressive but I was fed up with being harassed by controls for years ”.
“These agents who legitimately felt targeted by your words nevertheless ended the check by fearing for their safety,” President Michelle Raffin told him. After reminding the defendant of the role of the labor inspectorate, the vice-prosecutor, Jean Ailhaud requested a fine of 8,000 euros, of which 4,000 were suspended.
Found guilty of both offenses, the sixty-year-old was fined 4,000 euros including 3,000 suspended sentences and will have to pay each outraged civil servant 400 euros in damages in compensation for their moral prejudice.
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