The former mayor and present town councilor of Drancy, Jean-Christophe Lagarde, and his mother-in-law Monique Escolier-Lavail are predicted to seem on 3 Oct before the prison court docket in Paris next an investigation into suspected occupation.
UDI president and previous deputy of the Seine-Saint-Denis, Jean Christophe Lagarde, 54, will be tried using for embezzlement of community money though Monique Escolier-Lavail, his wife’s mom, will show up for concealment of community embezzlement, says the PNF, the National Economical Attorney’s (PNF) office environment that opened a preliminary investigation in 2017. Ms. Escolier-Lavail was used in the Nationwide Assembly amongst Might 2009 and August 2010, according to Liberation.
“We formally contest the suspicions expressed from Jean-Christophe Lagarde by the National Finance Prosecutor, subsequent an investigation which was neither neutral nor contradictory.“reacted to AFP attorney Mr. Lagarde, Me Yvon Goutal.”The evolution of the treatment will last but not least give us accessibility to magistrates prior to whom we can confirm my client’s innocence.“, Added Me Goutal.
The PNF’s preliminary investigation began immediately after a complaint in Oct 2017 by an opposition city councilor, Hacène Chibane. In this criticism, he questioned the activity of parliamentary assistant of Mr Lagarde’s wife, Aude Lavail-Lagarde, between 2002 and 2014. This mayor of Drancy considering that 2017 following her spouse, experienced resigned from his put up in the Assembly nationwide in 2014 right after a centrist activist accused Mr. Lagarde of illegally using the services of him.
In his grievance, Mr. Chibane also said that Mr. Lagarde, Mayor of Drancy from 2001 to 2017, “at the identical time he hired many other collaborators for his parliamentary activities“who have been they at”cabinet of the mayor of Drancy and staff members of the municipality“, In his view.
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