Why Grégory Doucet, the mayor of Lyon, was interviewed in police custody for 9 hours | EUROtoday

Mayor of Lyon is a place uncovered to the judicial threat. While Michel Noir had spectacularly dropped to concealing company property abuse in main politico-financial instances of the late Eighties, and Gérard Collomb was nervous in regards to the alleged fictitious employment of a former spouse, convened by police on his hospital mattress a couple of weeks earlier than his demise in November 2023, Grégory Doucet in flip skilled felony process.

The ecologist mayor of Lyon spent a whole day in police custody, Wednesday April 9, as a part of a judicial investigation for “embezzlement of public funds”. Summoned at 8 am, he was in a position to go away freely from the police lodge within the late afternoon. The mayor was invited to elucidate intimately on the character of 24 venture managers employed by the municipality. With this query: are they administrative brokers on the service of the group or members of cupboard, exceeding on this case largely the approved variety of workers with a political vocation?

At the origin of this questioning of justice, there’s a report from the Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC) of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, made public on June 14, 2024. Dedicated to the group of exterior communication of the City of Lyon, the research detected the presence of those venture supervisor, assigned to the deputy mayors of town. “Their mode of recruitment and end of function, their evaluation and their missions allow them to be assimilated to cabinet employees”, estimate the monetary magistrates. According to them, the restrict of 12 cupboard jobs immediately hooked up to the mayor, supplied for within the common code of the general public service for a metropolis of 523,000 inhabitants, is exceeded.

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