The president of the Guadeloupe area sentenced to 2 years in jail suspended on attraction | EUROtoday

The Basse-Terre Court of Appeal was extra extreme than the Court of First Instance, by condemning Ary Chalus, Tuesday, May 20, to 2 years in jail sentence, 25,000 euros nice, a ban on managing an affiliation for 3 years and an ineligibility sentence of two years. The president (ex-Renaissance) of the Guadeloupe area, convicted of breach of confidence and exceeding the ceiling of his marketing campaign account of the regional elections of 2015, had initially acquired a much less heavy jail sentence, fifteen months suspended.

He was then criticized for having, with 4 different defendants (which acquired three to 6 months suspended jail sentence and fines on the final occasion), used a neighborhood cultural affiliation to garner funds from enterprise donations, meant in reality to finance the marketing campaign. During hearings, each within the first physique and the courtroom of attraction, the investigation was typically certified as ” weak ” by the protection and the general public prosecutor, accused of missing in rigor. The Attorney General, Eric Maurel, selected in the course of the attraction trial to rule out an bill dated 2018 (for an expense of 2015), which, if it had been taken under consideration, would have led to the applying of the 2017 regulation on probity and ineligibility with provisional execution. But, denounced Mr. Maurel, even by excluding this bill, “The facts affect the republican pact”. The prosecutor requested for ineligibility, a request adopted by the courtroom.

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