The ex-deputy and current boss of the UDI is also tried for “embezzlement of public funds”. The national financial prosecutor’s office required against him on October 3 in suspended imprisonment, accompanied by a deprivation of five -year civil rights.
Le Monde with AFP
The third attempt was the right one. The ex-deputy and leader of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde was elected, on the night of Friday 14 to Saturday October 15, municipal councilor in his fief of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis), after two cancellations voting due to irregularities this summer.
At the end of a night municipal council, which lasted almost six hours, Mr. Lagarde, 54, obtained the seat of 11th deputy to the mayor of the city, led by his wife, Aude Lagarde , since 2017. His compensation will amount to “3,878.99 euros gross”, one of the best paid positions within the assistants, according to documents consulted by the France-Presse agency, which he can combine with his allowance -Chemage of old deputy.
For the elected centrist, the first two attempts to be elected were resulted in failure due to irregularities. During the municipal council of July 7, the resignation of the assistant to whom Mr. Lagarde succeeded had not first been registered by the services of the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture. On July 14, during a second council convened in emergency before the summer break, the procedure had also not been carried out in the rules, the administrative court of Montreuil said in early September.
a year in prison required against him for suspicion of fictitious employment
“We could have thought that legal appeals and the current trial invite him to more modesty but he clings to his allowances,” commented the elected environmentalist Hacène’s ultra Chibane, on the initiative of legal appeals. “By taking place there for the third time, he will earn even better his living, even benefiting from the thaw of the index point, unlike many French people,” he added.
Solicited by AFP, Mr. Lagarde was unreachable on Saturday.
Defeated from its headquarters to the legislative elections of June by “the rebellious” Raquel Garrido, after four successive mandates, the ex-deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis is currently tried for “embezzlement of public funds”.
He is suspected of having granted a fictitious job as a parliamentary assistant to his mother-in-law, between May 2009 and August 2010, and thus having paid her more than 39,000 euros of wages in exchange for his aid to write a Book on SMEs that never appeared.
Judged on October 3, the national financial prosecutor’s office therefore required a year of suspended imprisonment, accompanied by a deprivation of civil rights of five years. The judgment is expected on December 7.
In addition, one of Mr. Lagarde’s former collaborators was indicted in early September, in the investigation into the false accusations of Le Point magazine having targeted, during the legislative campaign, the deputies LFI Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière .