The Prosecutor’s Workplace opened, Wednesday Might 5, following info revealed by the “Canard chainé”, an investigation towards the EELV mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle, accused of getting elevated the wage of a collaborator within the objective that his ex-deputy Elisa Martin (from 2014 to 2022) advantages, for an quantity which might quantity in complete to 16,800 euros. The investigation for “concussion” – an offense punishable by 5 years in jail and a advantageous of 500,000 euros – and “concealment of this offense” additionally targets his ex-deputy and now rebellious MP Elisa Martin, but additionally an middleman , stated prosecutor Eric Vaillant.
In response to this problem, the mayor indicated that he wouldn’t resign. He accused a former collaborator who, ” for 2 years “wish to “hurt” him, throughout a press level, Wednesday June 5. “When somebody needs to get within the ring with you, my spontaneous response is to not go.”he added.
A complete quantity of 16,800 euros
The opening of this investigation follows the revelations of “Canard chainé”, Wednesday Might 5, in line with which Elisa Martin acquired 16,800 euros in money, not declared to the tax authorities by way of a “scheme”. In line with the weekly, a former collaborator of Éric Piolle would have benefited from a wage improve of 600 euros in December 2016 however would have been requested to present 400 again to the previous assistant. The target: to compensate for the top of her mandate as regional councilor and the discount of 1 / 4 within the compensation of municipal elected officers, beneath the principles set by the municipality, in line with AFP.
These funds would have ended, after the election in June 2022 of Elisa Martin as FI deputy. In line with the satirical newspaper, the financial institution statements of the previous collaborator, who left the city corridor shortly after Elisa Martin in the summertime of 2022, present that 400 euros had been “methodically” taken in money every month. He additionally allegedly had a bailiff attest to conversations on encrypted messaging companies.
Beforehand focused for suspicion of favoritism
If MP Elisa Martin didn’t react on Thursday June 6, the appropriate was fast to insurgent. The Republicans referred to as on Éric Piolle to “draw the results and do a service to Grenoble and the folks of Grenoble by resigning from his mandate”, in line with AFP. Former mayor Alain Carignon (1983 – 1995), himself convicted of corruption, took the freedom of denouncing the information “exceptionally critical” who, in line with him, “definitively break the belief of Grenoblois”.
This isn’t the primary time that the Grenoble elected official has been focused by the courts. He was the topic of an investigation for suspicion of favoritism in June 2021. Justice suspected the Grenoble city corridor of getting confided, “for 123,000 euros in 2015 and 128,000 euros in 2016, a public contract to an affiliation for the group of the Fête des Tiiles, with out aggressive bidding or promoting”. Éric Piolle was discovered responsible, throughout his enchantment trial, in September 2023. He indicated that he was contemplating a “potential enchantment to cassation”.
His lawyer on the time Thomas Fourrey had argued {that a} « media scandal » round this affair had been “applied by the municipal opposition. ». He added that Éric Piolle was “in incomprehension” confronted with this verdict.
