Condomned for “illegal taking of interest” and five years of ineligibility, the elected representative of the South League has seen its appeal in cassation definitively rejected on Wednesday. Elected without discontinuing since 1995 and among the first supports of Eric Zemmour to the presidential election, he intends to place his son in his mayor chair.
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The inamovable mayor of Orange, in the Vaucluse, is hardly bompard, elected for the fifth time and without discontinuous since 1995, is now forced to resign, after the refusal, Wednesday 17 November , from the Court of Cassation to examine his appeal. The extreme right elected, one of the first supports of Eric Zemmour, is thus definitely condemned for “illegal taking of interest” to one year imprisonment with stay, 30 000 euros fine and five years of ineligibility. He should resign next week – without that, the prefect will take care of it – but intends to place one of his sons in his mayor chair and pull the strings in the shadows.
The case is old: Jacques Bompard was condemned on the 25th of March in Nîmes for selling, in March 2005, a local of the city to his daughter and his son-in-law, who resold him with a solid Now added, then a year later, for bought to the municipality for its account two buildings to orange. The Advocate General had denounced at the hearing “The System” set up by the bompard, and the Court of Appeal even rolled the sentences pronounced at first instance.
Jacques Bompard disputes “Formally” the facts that are reproached for him, “No personal enrichment or misappropriation of funds are retained in my opinion, indicated the mayor in a statement, so I have to blush with nothing and my Honesty is intact “. He denounces “a government of the judges”, rendered “in the name of a caste that uses his power against democracy” and ensures that he will seize the European Court of Human Rights.
He will see “Honorary Mayor”
In the meantime, the reputable mayor brought together his heads of department and elected officials in the hall of the town hall, and announced to them that he intended to elect by the municipal majority his son Yann, his First deputy, and that he would be well “honorary mayor”, with an office at the Town Hall. However, it may have a difficulty: it is necessary to access the Honorary Honors have had municipal functions for at least eighteen years – no problem on that side, Jacques Bompard has twenty-six years of mandate – But it is the prefect who decides on the honorary, and can refuse him “if the person concerned has been the subject of a conviction, resulting in ineligibility,” according to the General Code of Territorial Communities. This is not the first time the mayor tries to install one of his sons. It was already the case in 2014, in vain, for Guillaume, before today his younger Yann, already counselor.
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