+ VIDEOS Aged 67 years, Senator Socialist left a farewell letter. He was to appear in court in the case of “Chinese weddings” organized by the city of Tours he led from 1995 to 2014.
The former Socialist mayor of Tours Jean Germain, was found dead Tuesday morning after leaving a farewell letter when he was scheduled to appear in court in the case of “Chinese marriages” organized in his city. Jean Germain “was found dead near his home” Tours, told AFP a police source. In the evening, the prosecutor announced that Jean Germain had “killed himself well.” “In the very first elements of the investigation, it would be a suicide,” the source said. Information confirmed in the evening by the prosecutor of Tours, Jean-Luc Beck. “This is suicide. There is nothing to counteract this assumption. There is no doubt, “ he told AFP, which was reached by phone. “There are very clear letters, the hunting weapon used …” he cited as evidence indicating a suicidal gesture. An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
At the age of 67 years, Senator PS, considered close to François Hollande, was prosecuted for “complicity” in arranging sham marriages celebrated by himself at the Tours town hall and gave rise to embezzlement.
But while the trial was scheduled for Tuesday morning and three days in Tours courthouse, his lawyer, Dominique Tricaud, announced during the call that the accused his client had “disappeared leaving a farewell letter.” “Jean Germain died is a martyr of the Republic. In that case, he was thrown to the dogs and as he wrote in the letter he left, their conscience will continue, “ then declared me Tricaud after the announcement of the discovery of the body . The presiding judge announced the postponement of the trial “due to unavoidable circumstances.”
“There are beings, j ‘ am, where injustice and disgrace are unbearable “
” I know the evil that I do, the pain I’m going to distribute to those who m ‘ like but you can not let the systematic hunting policies proceed normally on a daily basis, “ Jean Germain wrote in his farewell letter found in his vehicle and also sent to his lawyer and a relative of the Senate. .
“There are things I am, where injustice and disgrace are unbearable,” added the former mayor. “Be assured that I have not turned a penny, that I am not enriched me that I have always worked for what I thought was the happiness of Touraine,” he assured.
In this letter, Jean Germain said to expect that the prosecution against him requires “for reasons more political.” “It’s unbearable,” he added, before continuing: “so I can recognize mistakes, lack of discernment, so I can not accept this treason without flinching.”
The entire farewell letter to Jean Germain
“Indications make me think that while the crimes have not occurred, the Crown will require against me, for reasons more political. It’s unbearable. As much as I can recognize mistakes, lack of discernment, so I can not accept this without flinching forfeiture made possible by the actions of Ms. Han [former advisor to the Mayor of Tours involved in the case of "Chinese weddings "] and fearful of lies Mr. Lemarchand [general manager of the Tourist Board of the city]. Their consciousness will continue.
I know the evil that I do, the pain I’m going to spread to all those who love me. But we can not let the systematic hunting policy itself out daily. There are beings, I’m sure, where injustice and disgrace are unbearable. Be assured that I never hijacked a penny, that I am not rich, that I have always worked for what I thought was the happiness of Touraine. I leave this letter to my family, who I hope will understand how. “
” Romantic Wedding in Touraine “
The file the “Chinese marriages” originated in the organization between 2007 and 2011 for a Chinese customer “Romantic Wedding in Touraine.” These included visits to the Loire castles, as well as the city of Tours, including the mayor, wearing his tricolor sash, posed for the picture at weddings mock . Dozens of Chinese couples are thus came for, on the banks of the Loire, an exotic touch to the French.
A former member of the mayor’s office Tours Lise Han, is under investigation for fraud in the case of Chinese weddings. Justice is suspected of having been the manager of the company that makes organizing such marriages. Jean Germain, prosecuted for “illegal taking of complicity of public interests and embezzlement,” said he did not know Ms. Han’s actions. His conscience “continue the” he wrote about in his last letter.
1995 Mayor of Tours 1995
Jean Germain was beaten in the last municipal elections, when he was running for a fourth term. “Tombeur” Jean Royer, who led the city for 36 years, Jean Germain was mayor from 1995 to 2014. Tours He had to give way to the UMP Serge Babary, his former college friend and became high school his main political adversary.
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This former teacher of the Law School Tours was born September 11, 1947 in Tours. Son of pastry, he had public law studies took him to the doctorate. President François-Rabelais University of Tours in 1988, he left this function when appointed in 1993 as Inspector General of National Education. Vice-President of the Regional Council of the Centre since 1998, he left that position in 2011 when he was elected senator .
Known for its management ” consensus “of his city, Jean Germain was pinned in early 2011 by the Court of Auditors who accused him of having been almost fictional public employment (Inspector General) for 18 years. The former law professor said he was shocked and hurt by the allegations, which he denied.
After supported Segolene Royal in the presidential election 2007 Jean Germain had engaged five years later with François Hollande, which he was the advisor on education issues. Father of two grown children, Jean Germain was described by his entourage as a cook. He also devoted himself to gardening and reading.
Valls “upset”
The political world is under the clash. Starting with Francois Hollande which held that it was “a terrible tragedy that a man can be deleted because he does not want his honor is reached”, “great just elected disappear in conditions that are particularly cruel “
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Manuel Valls was said “upset” by the death of former Mayor of Tours. Arriving at a meeting of the PS group in the National Assembly, the Prime Minister launched to the press: “I’m losing a friend. It turns out that we were very related with Jean Germain “ was ” elected extraordinary “ and ” fundamentally changed “ his city. “I paid him tribute also there a few days since I was a public meeting in Tours in the town hall which had been for many years an elected extraordinary. He had profoundly changed his city, “ Manuel Valls continued.
“It was there, I was glad he was there . I knew he had to face a tough time this trial, “ observed the head of government. “I thought he had the strength and determination to be able to confront to justice.” “John was deeply Touraine. He carried in him also a share of this mild central France. It was a Republican, a committed layman, a teacher, “ he said again. “I had to see it in a few days as it was to hand with the member (note: Christine) Pires Beaune a report on the reform of the allocations for local authorities”
François Rebsamen , the Minister of Labour welcomed a “a man of integrity and honesty” that has not “bear to see her violated honor in the media and to appear as a defendant while he considered himself innocent and the victim of manipulation. “
Members PS were ready to write him when they learned of his death
Socialist MEPs learned of the death of Senator PS and former mayor of Tours, Jean Germain, when they s ‘preparing to send him “a message of friendship” before his trial, showed their spokesperson, Annick Lepetit. “As our Group President (Bruno Le Roux, ed), at the beginning of our meeting, we proposed to send a message of friendship to Jean Germain, we learned of his death. We are all very touched, shocked,” said the member of Paris, during the weekly press briefing of the group.
“John was a good man”
Jean-Marie Le Guen , State Secretary for Relations with Parliament noted that Jean Germain, the Senate “was known for his skills public finances. Claude Bartolone , PS President of the National Assembly paid “tribute to a great elect of the Republic who has dedicated his life to his country and his countrymen”
As for Bruno Roux , leader of the PS deputies, he said that the suicide Jean Germain was ” a trauma for our democracy. ” “His gesture expresses dismay of an elected devoted to the public good and has not supported his honor be tainted by the trial court was concerned.” “John was a good man.”
Senator PS Jean-Pierre Sueur referred to “a man discreet.” “When I spoke to him, he was very quiet and minimized this case.” “He was very involved in the Grand Orient of France.”
Marisol Touraine , Minister of Health, as Manuel Valls expressed: “deeply upset is aujourd ay I lose a friend. I will never forget his support and friendship to me testified since my first campaign for parliamentary elections in 1997 “.
The pressure on elected officials to ban the defendants
Many politicians, while refraining to question justice, made the connection between the death of Jean Germain and “pressure” increasingly strong exerted on politicians by the media and public opinion. The interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve paid tribute to public figures “face violence from public life” .
A decried violence Gérard Larcher. Given all colleagues Jean Germain, President of the Senate UMP denounced a “system that is racing, indiscriminately, without regard for honor (…) that has ultimately never learned nothing from Pierre Beregovoy. “ The former Socialist Prime Minister François Mitterrand, Pierre Beregovoy, had committed suicide on 1 May 1993, a month after leaving Matignon, when his name was mentioned in a politico-financial case, without any legal action being taken against him. “All the explanations of the world will not justify that could give dogs the honor of a man and ultimately its life, “ was launched accuser, François Mitterrand, knotted voice, before the coffin of Peter Bérégovoy. If the former head of state has never really explained who were “dogs”, his relatives have often blamed the press.
Ecologist Christmas Mamère , invoking the memory of Mr. Bérégovoy, called “questioning look that one is about politics.” “The venom, the poison that was instilled by (Jean-Marie) Le Pen in the 80s on + rotten all policies + is in the process to be effective,” he assured.
MP UDI Loir-et-cher Maurice Leroy has it “thought” Roger Salengro. Also Socialist, that Interior Minister of the Popular Front of Leon Blum, had committed suicide November 17, 1936, after being the victim of a smear campaign on the part of the extreme right papers.
” We must stop believing that elected officials in their pockets, it’s completely untrue “ is UMP launched the Jacques Myard in the corridors of the Assembly, criticizing the “media tribunal”.
If “the pressure is growing strong,” is not only due to the media, as UMP treasurer Daniel Fasquelle. “We a fellow citizens who sometimes behave as consumers. They consume public services they consume elected, they become overly demanding, and sometimes refuse to take into account the constraints that also weigh on the elect. “
Jean Garrigues , historian and professor at the University of Orleans, notes actually, for twenty years, ” a heightened vigilance against media and judicial powers, a lesser indulgence of the public with respect to failures of men of power “,” the operation of local democracy including local elected officials, increasing pressure citizen-elected “and” strengthening the prosecution of political exercise. “ This set of factors, ” on the bottom widespread discrediting of the political class, “can” feed a sense disavowal of evil to be a politician, “ he told AFP. In addition, media pressure, the Time “information minute” and telescoped through social networks has changed. “The information being instantaneous, opinion instantly forge” M. Garrigues argues.
The farewell letter to Jean Germain was read at the meeting of senators PS:
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