The former centrist of the Rhône appears from Monday October 31 in Paris, with his wife and daughter, for suspicions of fictitious parliamentary jobs.
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The former Keeper of the Seals Michel Mercier, his wife and one of his daughters must appear, from Monday October 31 and until November 10, before the 32ᵉ Chamber of the Paris court, for suspicions fictitious jobs. The former Senator (Modem) of the 75 -year -old Rhône, is accused of three “embezzlement of public funds” in the Senate, for having employed his wife Joëlle as parliamentary assistant from 2005 to 2009, then his daughter Delphine from 2012 to 2014 , while living in London; Finally for having hired part-time a ghost assistant, Hubert Devillers.
Michel Mercier is also prosecuted for another diversion, this time at the General Council of the Rhône, of which he was the president from 1990 to 2013: his wife, who was neither elected nor an employee, organized force demonstrations at the expense of The community, which applies to the former minister to be also referred for “illegal taking of interest”.
The survey was born from an article in the Duck chained on August 2, 2017, which joked this “attentive employer with regard to his children”: the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) immediately opened an investigation, searched At the General Council of the Rhône and the Senate – Gérard Larcher, its president (Les Républicains), had first opposed perfectly illegally. The investigation, closed in February 2019, was able to be consulted by the Mercier lawyers in December 2021. Michel Mercier, his wife and daughter were sent before the court in direct appearance, without a investigating judge was appointed , in accordance with the habit of PNF.
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Delphine Mercier would have unduly received 37,158.16 euros, Hubert Devillers “at least 30,000 euros”, Joëlle 84,525 euros – in reality, the wife of the senator accompanied her in 1995, during her first mandate, But the PNF judged that the facts were prescribed and he only pursues it for “complicity” and “concealment” since 2005.
In the same way, another Mercier girl, Véronique, is not prosecuted although she was a project manager with the centrist group in the Senate from 2003 to 2010, when her father was the president. Bruno Mercier, the son of the senator, hired in 2007 to the General Council of the Rhône that his father presided, is not questioned either.
It is that Michel Mercier has gone roughly the tour of political mandates. Mayor of Thizy-les-Bourgs (Rhône) for twenty-four years, he was Departmental Councilor of the Rhône twelve years old, then his president, deputy two years, senator from 1995 to 2009, before being appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy Minister of Rural space in 2009, then justice (2010-2012). Gérard Larcher even appointed him to the Constitutional Council – just before the publication of the Duck chained. Michel Mercier, the rage in the heart, had to give it up.
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