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The case of the Elysée polls just suddenly catch Nicolas Sarkozy. Six former officials or advisors of the Presidency of the Republic during his reign were placed in custody in this folder, including Claude Gueant, Xavier Musca and Emmanuelle Mignon. Opened in late 2012 on charges of “embezzlement” and “favoritism” the criminal investigation is all the more embarrassing it covers the five year term of Nicolas Sarkozy. Upon his arrival at the Elysee Palace, the latter has done surveys a central part of its policy. Studies that allow it both to take the pulse of public opinion continuously and constantly to refine his speeches. Between 2007 and 2012, Sarkozy has thus asked for hundreds of surveys, all ordered and paid by the Elysee without any tender. More than ten million euros of spending could be tainted with illegality, as determined officers from the Brigade of repression of Economic Crimes (OERD).
The first to benefit none other than Patrick Buisson, a former adviser Maurrassian to public obloquy for President Sarkozy registered without his knowledge. For three years, Bush has reached more than € 3 million through its Publifact company for its activities “advice, reporting, comments on the evolution of public opinion.” Other sounder fashionable enjoying the bonanza, Pierre Giacometti, who recovered his side more than 2.5 million euros between 2008 and 2012, through its Giacometti-Péron society. These great professionals distill studies of opinions that go beyond the everyday concerns of rural France. Surveys are carried out and Manuel Valls, Hollande, but also on Nicolas’s wedding with Carla hypothesis or pregnancy of Rachida Dati. All this, of course, at taxpayer expense. Problem: Elysée’s communicating sat on the procurement code, contracts have been distributed to the happy few without any call for competition. A total of nine research firms handpicked have been approached during the five year.
“Favouritism”
The Court of accounts is the first to raise the hare in 2009, signaling a contract signed on 1 June 2007 between Patrick Buisson and Emmanuelle Mignon, while Nicolas Sarkozy’s chief of staff. The auditors emphasized bluntly that “none of the possibilities of the Code of public contracts were not applied” . Another oddity: some studies charged to the Elysée have also been paid publications in the press, suggesting suspicion of double billing. Based on the report of the Court of Auditors, the Association Anticor complaint in February 2010 for “favoritism” in Paris prosecutor. The beginning of a procedural battle over three years, with only one question in the background: the immunity enjoyed by the President of the Republic during his mandate she applies also to members of his cabinet? No, will eventually meet the Supreme Court in December 2012. In a leading case for jurisprudence, senior judges emphasize that “no constitutional provision, law or agreement provides for immunity or criminal responsibility of members the office of President of the Republic “.
A month later, the judges finally getting the pole supplemental submissions extending their investigation to the facts of” favoritism, misuse of public funds ” and “complicity and concealment of these crimes.” Since the investigations were extended to all contracts of advice or surveys commissioned during the five year term of Nicolas Sarkozy. But seem difficult to carry out. In wanting to recover the Elysée archives for the period 2007-2012, the judges discovered that they had mysteriously vanished. A disappearance that led prosecutors to open a separate investigation for “misappropriation and destruction of public property” . The business surveys therefore only beginning
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