Former Secretary General of the Elysée, already incarcerated in another case, was sentenced, Friday, January 21, to eight months farm for favoritism. It intends to appeal.
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“The President of the Republic and his collaborators are debtors to the French people of a duty of probity, impartiality and exemplarity”, which has not been respected by Claude Guéant and Emmanuelle cute, when They were, respectively, the Secretary General of the Elysee and the Cabinet of Cabinet Nicolas Sarkozy. It is on behalf of this principle of exemplary of the senior servants of the State that the president of the 32 e Correctional Chamber of Paris, Benjamin Blanchet, condemned Claude Guéant, to one year in prison Of which eight months closes, for favoritism. In November 2021, during the trial, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office had required one year in prison including six months farm.
For the court, Mr. Guéant, by his “exemplary course” of prefect, could not ignore that by signing with the companies of Patrick Buisson and Pierre Giacometti, two advisers of the Presidency, contracts without appeal of Offers for several million euros, he violated the Code des Marches Publics. A “symptomatic attitude of a loss of cardinal landmarks and privilege granted to private economic actors”, reports the Tribunal, which recalls that the Presidency “must incarnate the nation, over the partisan interests, and protect the ‘Rule of law. “.
Absent at the hearing, Mr. Guéant, aged 77, is already in prison following the revocation of his stay in another case, that of the liquid premiums illegally paid when he was Minister of the Interior . His sentence had been abolished in December 2021, since he did not pay the payment of his fines. Its maintenance of detention must be re-examined on February 7th. His lawyer announced that he intended to appeal judgment in the case of surveys.
“Violation of the Rule of Law”
The Tribunal was a little less severe towards Emmanuelle Cute, sentenced to six months suspended for implemented contracts as a cabinet chest. The lawyer could not ignore the unlawful nature of past agreements with Patrick Buisson – or with Giacometti – Mr. Giacometti – believes the Tribunal. He reports an “ambivalent attitude” on his part, this “cobbled casual” concerning these contracts, contrasting with his “determination to put an end to the arbitrary system” which prevailed at the Elysee until his arrival – M me Cute is the one that has put in place the first calls for tenders to the Presidency, from 2008.
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