It is impossible to understand anything when we remember the debates. While the public hearing of October 7 had depicted practices presumed to say the least doubtful on the part of the protagonists of the case, the correctional court of Melun pronounced the general release on Monday during the deliberation of this case.
Judged for alleged favoritism in the city’s public contracts in 2012 and 2013, with regard to two companies – one specializing in pruning and the other in IT – their respective bosses, Gilles Benedic, the former director of technical services and Cédric Pommot, the former first socialist deputy of Pontault-Combault thus saw the charges which weighed against them fly away.
“The prosecutor did not ask a question”, recalls Me Guedj
No one yet knows the motives of the tribunal. The lawyers will take note of it at the end of the ten-day period during which the prosecution can appeal. A question for which Béatrice Angelelli, the public prosecutor of Melun, will make her decision after a few days of reflection.
At the hearing on October 7, the latter’s substitute had nevertheless requested a ten-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 15,000 euros and five years of ineligibility against Monique’s former deputy. Delessard (PS), mayor from 2007 to 2018. According to Me Alexis Guedj, lawyer for Cédric Pommot, his client benefited from the doubt.
“The materiality of the evidence must be established, the doubt must benefit the accused. There, the prosecution arrives with a poorly tied file. During the fourteen hearings, the prosecutor did not ask a question of one of the defendants. For her, the record is perfect! », Quips Me Guedj.
“This affair is a political coup”, concludes Me Roumens
And to continue: “It is a political file. We wonder about the political instrument that the prosecution has made by activating public action with such a file for the benefit of the Delessard-Bord team. [NDLR : Gilles Bord (PS) est l’actuel maire de Pontault-Combault], who wanted to oust Cédric Pommot from the mayoral race in 2014. ”
“I’m satisfied,” he said finally. But for my client, I still tell myself that during all these years, he has been in a legal slump. He thus lost the possibility of remaining in the political landscape of Pontault-Combault. There were also consequences on his professional life and on his family life behind. “
Same story for Me Gilles Roumens. For the lawyer of Eusebio Sanchez, boss of the pruning company and only defendant present at the hearing on Monday, this general acquittal “tends to show that this case is a political coup intended to settle accounts between politicians. “
The former mayor admits to being “a little surprised”
Contacted, Me Emmanuel Tordjman, the lawyer for the city of Pontault, civil party in this case, does not wish to react without knowing the motives of the court.
