The parquet of Paris also asked for a sentence of three years of ineligibility, which would force Alain Griset to leave the government.
Le Monde
“An upright clumsiness”, but not a “dishonesty”: the defense of the Minister in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises, Alain Griset, did not convince the prosecution, Tuesday, October 12, who required against him ten At twelve months of suspended prison for failing to declare a part of its heritage.
In the Paris Correctional Court, the Prosecutor has arugated his requisitions of a fine and, above all, a three-year sentence of ineligibility which, he said, would result in “automatically the prohibition of ‘Exercise public functions “and thus put an end to its duties as minister. “Not only did the warned faith in bad faith, but it is particularly bad faith,” said the magistrate.
These words offended Alain Griset’s lawyer, M e Patrick Maisonneuve. Leaving the courtroom, he did not hesitate to qualify the requisitions of “death penalty against a minister, the death penalty of the function”.
” I was badly recommended “
Prime Minister in office to appear before a correctional court, Alain Griset, 68, joined the Government in July 2020, is continued for “incomplete declaration or misleading of his heritage situation” and “his interests” so as not to have Mentioned to the High Authority for the transparency of public life (HATVP), as imposed by law, financial interests held in an equity savings plan for € 171,000. The HATVP had grasped justice in November 2020 after noticing the omission of Mr. Griset.
At the hearing, Mr. Grayet pleaded good faith. “I was poorly advised,” he repeated, rejecting “the clumsiness” on his banker, accountants and other “sachazing who did not tell me anything”. “We tried to do for the better. We are not lawyers,” the minister explained. “At no time I wanted to cheat, steal or hide anything,” defended the accused, who claims to have “paid in terms of image” the consequences of this case.
The funds come from the Office of the National Confederation of Crafts, Crafts and Northern Services, which had entrusted in 2019 some 130,000 euros to Mr. Griset, his president then, so that he place on its share savings plan (PEA). It was, according to Mr. Grégéet, to make this sum fructify. But for the HATVP, the omission of declaration was essentially aimed at “to prevent the revelation of facts that could receive the criminal qualification of trusted abuse”. The court’s decision will be rendered on December 8th.