The Prosecutor’s Workplace opened, Wednesday Might 5, following data 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 aim that his ex-deputy Elisa Martin (from 2014 to 2022) advantages, for an quantity which might quantity in whole to 16,800 euros. The investigation for “concussion” – an offense punishable by 5 years in jail and a nice of 500,000 euros – and “concealment of this offense” additionally targets his ex-deputy and now rebellious MP Elisa Martin, but in addition an middleman , mentioned 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 “want 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 accordance with which Elisa Martin obtained 16,800 euros in money, not declared to the tax authorities by way of a “scheme”. In keeping 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 provide 400 once more 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 foundations set by the municipality, in accordance with AFP.
These funds would have ended, following the election in June 2022 of Elisa Martin as FI deputy. In keeping with the satirical newspaper, the financial institution statements of the previous collaborator, who left the city corridor shortly following 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 providers.
Beforehand focused for suspicion of favoritism
If MP Elisa Martin didn’t react on Thursday June 6, the suitable 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 accordance with AFP. Former mayor Alain Carignon (1983 – 1995), himself convicted of corruption, took the freedom of denouncing the info “exceptionally critical” who, in accordance 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 attraction trial, in September 2023. He indicated that he was contemplating a “potential attraction to cassation”.
His lawyer on the time Thomas Fourrey had argued {that a} « media scandal » round this affair had been “carried out by the municipal opposition. ». He added that Éric Piolle was “in incomprehension” confronted with this verdict.
