AFP / ANNE CHRISTINE POUJOULAT The President PS of the Bouches-du-Rhône Jean-Noel Guerini, by January 24, 2014 in Marseille.
The former head of the PS in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Jean-Noel Guerini, now head of a rival party, will know his fate on Monday morning a public embezzlement case , in which one year of ineligibility and prison six months were required before the Criminal Court of Marseille.
In this case, the only for which he was returned to Corrections so far but still minor compared with other cases in which he was indicted, the President of the General Council, re-elected Senator in late September, appeared in October alongside his former collaborator, Jean-David Ciot , became an MP after succeeding Guerin at the head of the departmental PS.
convenience dismissal
Justice Ciot suspect, charged with receiving stolen goods, to have received May 26, 2011 a dismissal of complacency decided Guerin After nine years of presence, through 65,000 euros in compensation to enable it to run in the parliamentary elections of 2012.
The prosecution requested against them six-month suspended sentence and one year of ineligibility and a fine of 15,000 euros each . He referred to a “dismissal aberrant” special concern about the lack of notice of dismissal, which proves in his “intentionality” of the two defendants. If Ciot had placed a notice, he could not run for parliamentary, an April 2011 law requiring employees of local authorities resign at least one year before the election.
“The system Guerin”
At the hearing, Ciot reiterated that the dismissal had him imposed and that he did not intend initially to run for elections. If he has indeed acknowledged at the hearing have decided to dismiss his collaborator, Guerin has meanwhile said he had “at no time (…) thought to violate the law” and not having cared details.
The political context was terrible
Jean-Noel Guerini
This case should have concern “the administrative court or tribunal. But as I am not Mr Smith, I find myself in front of you, “he told Guerin judges. ” The political context was terrible, it was necessary to remove Jean-Noel Guerini “, a-t -it supported stigmatizing accusations made at the time by the Socialist Arnaud Montebourg against “Guerin system.”
A thorn in the foot over the local PS
Guerin is indeed indicted, including influence peddling and conspiracy , in several cases of alleged fraudulent procurement, while as his brother Alexander, suspected of dealings with the community.
Whatever the decision of the court on Monday, it will be a thorn in the foot over the local PS already rolled from his defeat in the municipal March and the recent decision of the Election Commission to invalidate the campaign accounts of several of its candidates in Marseille.
“From great anything “
In delicacy with the PS from its legal troubles, Guerin, after lending a hand to the UMP Jean-Claude Gaudin for re-election for mayor of Marseille, had anticipated in April 2014 its exclusion from the PS by resigning to found his political movement, “The Power of 13″, turned into November party. What the court acquitted Ciot and Guerin, and it will be in a stronger position than ever before the departmental elections in March 2015.
Already, 22 councilors various socialist or left (FdG and PRG) have called for “a broad alliance of elected representatives of the outgoing majority” with Jean-Noel Guerini , despite the official socialist position break with him. That judges consider them guilty, and the PS will suffer the condemnation of his federal first without preventing Guerin, who will call to run for county . The situation in the PS to four months of departmental? “From the great anything,” says Michel Pezet, one of the six outgoing councilors refused the alliance with Guerin.
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