The Court of Cassation rejected Wednesday the appeal of the former President of French Polynesia.
Le Monde with AFP
Condemned on 10 December 2020, by the Court of Appeal of Papeete, two years of suspended prison, about 83,000 euros of fine, as well as five years of ineligibility, Gaston Flosse saw his appeal rejected, Wednesday, January 12, by the Court of Cassation.
This decision makes definitive the sentence of the former President of French Polynesia for abuse of confidence and misappropriation of public good.
Former mayor of Pirae, Gaston Flosse was accused of having done for nearly twenty years to the administered water supply costs of his home, located in Arue, a bordering municipality.
Cassation appeal also rejected for Edouard Fritch
The appeal in cassation of the current president of this French Pacific community, Edouard Fritch, notified in the same case for diversion of public good, was also rejected. Edouard Fritch, former son-in-law of Gaston Flosse with whom he is today blurred, was also on the bench of defendants so that he had taken the reins of the municipality. He was sentenced by the Court of Appeal to a fine of about 8,300 euros.
Gaston Flosse, 90, had vainly tried a return on the leaders of the Polynesian political scene by announcing his candidacy for the last municipal elections in the municipality of Papeete. But his registration on the electoral lists had been refused on the ground that he could not justify his residence in the capital.
