Aimé Césaire’s occasion is faltering in its historic bastion | EUROtoday

Less than a month earlier than the primary spherical of municipal elections, on March 15, the mayor (Martiniquais Progressive Party, left) of Fort-de-France, Didier Laguerre, who’s in search of a 3rd time period, risked being sentenced to ineligibility. This impediment was eliminated on the final minute: in a judgment rendered by deliberation, Thursday February 19, the Paris judicial court docket, opposite to the requisitions of the prosecution, acquitted the 60-year-old councilor in addition to his first deputy, Yvon Pacquit, three months after a trial for concealment of embezzlement of public funds throughout which the 2 elected officers appeared alongside Serge Letchimy, mayor of Fort-de-France between 2001 and 2010 and president of the council govt of the Territorial Collectivity of Martinique (CTM) since 2021.

The judges of the 32^e correctional chamber nonetheless discovered Serge Letchimy responsible of “concussion” and sentenced the 73-year-old elected official, who chaired the Martinique Progressive Party till 2023, to eighteen months in jail, a effective of 150,000 euros and 5 years of ineligibility as a result of administrative association from which he benefited, at his request, upon his retirement from his place as territorial engineer of town of Fort-de-France, in 2016, when he was a deputy (2007-2021).

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