Nathalie Bicais, LR mayor of Seyne-sur-Mer, sentenced to 5 years of speedy ineligibility for unlawful curiosity | EUROtoday

Accused of getting failed in his obligation to “Probity, essential quality for an elected official”Nathalie Bicais, LR mayor of La Seyne-sur-Mer, the second metropolis in Var, was sentenced to unlawful taking curiosity on Friday, May 16, with an instantaneous five-year ineligibility sentence.

A sentence of 18 months suspended jail sentence, accompanied by an ineligibility of 5 years with provisional execution, a prohibition to train any public service of two years and a advantageous of 20,000 euros was pronounced by the president of the Criminal Court of Toulon, who regretted the absence of the elected official on studying the judgment. “She is not interested in justice”,, “She’s not there, it’s a shame”began Marie-Laure Arnouil, earlier than motivating her determination.

Ms. Bicais, elected in 2020 on this metropolis bordering Toulon, ought to subsequently be dismissed from her mandates very quickly by the prefect of the Var, the sentence of ineligibility utilized instantly, though she appealed her condemnation as introduced by her lawyer, Me Gilles Gauer. She missed “To probity, an essential quality expected from an elected official”with “No questioning” from him on the listening to: worse, “She trivializes offenses”which poses a “Risk of reiteration”detailed the president.

“Provisional execution should produce provisional consequences in a rule of law. This provisional execution produces consequences which are irreversible ”regretted Me Gauer. “It affects the principle of election and the functioning of democracy”added the lawyer, this conviction tremendously compromising its potential to current itself to the municipal elections of 2026. It might come up if justice manages to evaluate it on attraction in a short time and if the Court of Appeal pronounced one other determination than that of first occasion.

Second mayor to be dismissed from his duties

Justice criticizes him for acquiring a constructing allow in 2021 for his private home, with the signing of his director common of the providers of the time, Laurent Régné, sentenced to 6 months in jail suspended. She was additionally continued for the hiring of one among her relations, Christophe Riqueau, with out calling for candidates and whereas he had lent him in parallel 100,000 euros for the acquisition of his home by the ocean. Mr. Riqueau, sentenced particularly to 12 months in jail suspended and 5 years of ineligibility on this file, is at the moment the director of cupboard of Mrs. Bicais, a place which will be supplied with the discretion of the discretion.

Ms. Bicais is the second mayor of a giant metropolis within the Var to be dismissed from his duties for questions of probity, after Hubert Falco, ex-mayor of Toulon and ex-baron of native coverage, sentenced in 2023 to an instantaneous penalty of ineligibility for meals and urgent prices paid by the VAR departmental council which he nonetheless presided.

Ex-LR at the moment joined Emmanuel Macron, the previous Toulon elected official challenged this five-year ineligibility sentence earlier than the Court of Cassation, which is because of make its determination on May 28.