The file relating to the case known as ”
of Roberto Traversini’s garden shed” has just undergone new developments.
It has indeed been transferred to the Chamber of Deputies, announced the Public Prosecutor’s Office this Friday, April 22 in a press release.
For the record, the former mayor of Differdange and MP Déi Gréng Roberto Traversini,
who has since resigned
, was in difficulty in 2019 following revelations concerning a house in his town which was bequeathed to him by a couple he had known for a long time and whose guardianship he had. A house with a garden shed in which the mayor undertook sanitation work without having requested authorization from the Nature and Forests Administration, while the said shed is located in a Natura 2000 protected area The authorization was delivered to him, but a posteriori.
An advanced one on the Dieschbourg file
It is at this level that the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development,
Carole Dieschbourg
(the green one), and was pointed out by the doigt.
The opposition sees in the grant of authorization a treatment of favor towards his comrade dei Gréng.
The Luxembourg Public Prosecutor’s Office has indeed opened a judicial investigation into the charges once morest Roberto Traversini. “The case is not yet closed,” said a spokesperson for the judicial administration requested by Paperjam. Only the case involving the Ministry of the Environment is. It was sent on Thursday April 21, 2022 to the President of the Chamber of Deputies.
I urge Parliament to approve the waiver of my immunity.
Does this mean that there are enough elements for the Minister to bear? “No, that means that justice has carried out an investigation and transmitted the elements to the Chamber of Deputies. It is up to her to analyze them and decide whether they are relevant or not”. In the first case, it might decide on a correctional referral, in the second, on the abandonment of the proceedings. “The Chamber of Deputies is now playing the role of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, it is up to it to decide what will happen next,” he summarizes.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office recalls that in “application of Articles 82 and 116 of the Constitution, only the Chamber of Deputies has the discretionary power to accuse a member of the Government”.
Towards a lifting of immunity
For this, the ministerial immunity of Carole Dieschbourg must be lifted. What she also asks of the President of the Chamber. “Yesterday, the public prosecutor sent an official request to Parliament to waive my immunity,” she explains in a press release. “So that I, as a member of the Government, can be heard by the investigators”. The decision to lift or not will be taken “by a simple majority of votes in open session of the House”.
“Since 2019, personally and through my lawyer, I have repeatedly emphasized that I support this investigation. So there is no doubt in my mind that lifting my immunity is the right way. In response to this request, I therefore address a letter to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, in which I urge Parliament to approve the lifting of my immunity.”