Investigations have uncovered “a system of embezzlement” based in particular on tips “at the disproportionate amount” or on a falsification of the number of traders present on the Val Fourré market in Mantes-la-Jolie.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
Seven defendants were sentenced on Monday, January 16, to prison sentences in a case of racketeering of traders on the Val Fourré market, one of the largest in Ile-de-France, by the court from Versailles. These are former plachers, a former market security official in this popular Mantes-la-Jolie district, west of Paris, and defendants that are found to have burned vehicles of traders of traders .
Their sorrows are spent from six months to five years’ imprisonment and are mostly accompanied by additional sanctions, such as the ban on staying in Mantes-la-Jolie for five years or exercising in the function permanently public.
omerta
Sidi El Haimer, who was the first deputy mayor of Mantes-la-Jolie, was found guilty of a witness underwear and sentenced to a year of suspended imprisonment, as well as five years of ineligibility. “We are going to appeal,” promised his lawyer, Alexandre Simonin, who considers “the assessment of the tribunal tribunal on the bottom and the completely inappropriate repression”.
For the president of the court, the investigations and the trial uncovered “a system of embezzlement” based in particular on tips “at the disproportionate amount” or on a falsification of the number of traders present on the market. The Versailles prosecutor’s office evaluated the damage suffered between 2010 and 2019 to 2.5 million euros.
This system was able to prosper for ten years in “a context of omerta”, nourished by “threats and pressures” exerted on traders, said the president. Some of the defendants must also pay several thousand euros to the city of Mantes-la-Jolie and to Mandon, market manager since 2018, civil parties in the file.