Mélanie Boulanger, former mayor of Canteleu, definitively acquitted of fees of complicity in drug trafficking | EUROtoday

The prosecution having withdrawn the enchantment in opposition to the judgment rendered at first occasion, the previous mayor of Canteleu (Seine-Maritime) Mélanie Boulanger is definitively acquitted of fees of complicity in drug trafficking, Agence France has realized. Judicial supply press, Monday December 9.

The public prosecutor’s workplace, which represents the prosecution on the degree of the Paris Court of Appeal, “withdrew the main appeal in this case concerning only Mélanie Boulanger”in accordance with this supply, confirming data from France Bleu Normandie. However, numerous defendants within the case can be retried because of appeals of their convictions.

The Bobigny public prosecutor’s workplace, which had requested a one-year suspended jail sentence, 5 years of ineligibility and a superb of 10,000 euros in opposition to M^me Boulanger, had appealed the acquittal pronounced on July 4 by the Bobigny legal court docket, a court docket of first occasion inside the jurisdiction of the Paris court docket of enchantment.

“The general public prosecutor’s office considers that in fact, there was nothing in the file which justified Mélanie Boulanger being referred to the criminal court and that she would be the subject of an appeal by the Bobigny public prosecutor’s office”reacted to Agence France-Presse his lawyer, Antoine de Saint-Rémy. “It’s a real relief, because it means we’ll avoid having to face a hearing again. That of Bobigny had been, on a human level, very complicated for Mélanie Boulanger,” added the lawyer for the ex-mayor of the small Normandy city.

During a chaotic trial which passed off from the tip of May to the tip of June, the Bobigny court docket tried 18 defendants in reference to trafficking “very high intensity” of cocaine, heroin and hashish primarily based in Canteleu, a poor city within the Rouen metropolitan space. According to a court docket estimate, this legal group generated a turnover of 15 million euros over the 2 years lined by the investigation, between 2019 and 2021.

If the court docket famous a “weakening of ethical safeguards” of the 47-year-old socialist elected official, who maintained a relationship along with her deputy, near the traffickers, he however thought-about that there was no proof within the file “positive act” prone to characterize complicity.

At the top of this “delinquent company generating exceptional capital inflows”Aziz Meziani referred to as “The U”, the clan chief on the run in Morocco, was sentenced in his absence to the utmost sentence of ten years in jail, in addition to to pay a superb of two million euros.