In February, she had been sentenced to five years of ineligibility by the judicial court of Toulouse, who felt that his “political communication” had been financed with “public money”.
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She had been fallen from her mandate in February, after her conviction at first instance for diversion of public funds. Tuesday, December 14, the old Mayor The Republicans of Montauban Brigitte Barèges was finally relaxed by the Court of Appeal of Toulouse.
“It’s a great relief. The meaning of this judgment is extremely clear, M me is not guilty of what was reproached,” said his lawyer, Laurent de Caunes. The Court did not follow the requisitions of the Crown, which had required on October 28th six years of ineligibility and twelve months of suspended imprisonment, arguing “established facts” and ensuring that “the Court will not have any Problem to demonstrate the guilt of M me Barèges “.
It accuses its opponents
In February, the judicial court of Toulouse had pronounced a five-year sentence of ineligibility, twelve months of suspended prison and 15,000 euros fine, considering that “political communication” of M me Barèges had been funded with “public money”. M me Barèges had been removed from his mandate at the head of the Montauban town hall, being not suspensive in this case.
Brigitte Barèges, Figure of Republicans in Occitania, denounced political motivations of his opponents to explain the complaints that aimed at her. “They could not win by the ballot boxes (…) They destroyed a person because they are unable to win a city (…). She trusted, she hoped justice,” said Tuesday his companion, Pierre Term , after reading the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
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The case, where she was the main questioning, takes place between 2012 and 2014. At the time, M me Barèges is at the same time mayor of Montauban and candidate for his re-election to the municipal. His former Jean-Paul Fourment Communications Officer, ousted from his post as a result of disciplinary proceedings, “said justice to the community to write laudatory articles with respect to M me Barèges in the small newspaper, a local publication.
As a result, the former member had been indicted in June 2015 for “diversion of public funds per person custodian of the public authority or invested with a public service mission”.