Stéphane Ravier, far-right senator, sentenced to 1 yr of ineligibility for favoritism | EUROtoday

Far-right senator Stéphane Ravier was sentenced to a few months in jail, accompanied by one yr of ineligibility in addition to a superb of 5,000 euros for acts of favoritism, the Marseille judicial court docket introduced on Tuesday February 17.

“In his capacity as authorizing officer, Mr. Ravier bore ultimate responsibility for compliance with the rules”stated the president, declaring Mr. Ravier responsible for acts of favoritism relationship from September 2016 to June 2017, when he occupied the seat of mayor of seven^e Marseille sector (13^e and 14^e districts). However, she thought of that“no personal enrichment has[vait] been demonstrated, but favoritism is characterized only by the breaking of the rules of competition”.

The senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, ex-RN and ex-Reconquête!, is accused of getting awarded a contract to 2 firms geared toward renovating the web site of the sector city corridor however which, in keeping with the prosecution, the truth is benefited the identical particular person. This would have made it potential, in keeping with the prosecution, to be under the brink of 25,000 euros, the quantity above which a public contract should essentially give rise to aggressive bidding.

His niece additionally sentenced

Sandrine d’Angio, the niece of Mr. Ravier, who had succeeded her uncle as mayor of seven^e Marseille sector in 2017, was sentenced to a superb of 5,000 euros, together with 2,000 euros suspended, and one yr of ineligibility. The president justified this distinction in sanction with M’s uncle^me of Angio, as a result of she “was not at the origin of the initial system, but was part of the continuity of practices already underway”.

Pierre-Vincent Lambert, the senator’s lawyer, requested acquittal, contesting the offense “in the rational and the intentional”. The prosecutor had requested six months suspended jail sentence, a 5,000 euro superb and three years of ineligibility for the 2 accused.

This is a brand new conviction along with that of final week, the place Mr. Ravier was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and a one-year ineligibility in one other case of unlawful taking of pursuits, for having “worked illegally” to the recruitment of his son to the sector city corridor.

Two years after his defeat within the final municipal elections, the place he got here in third place with virtually 20% of the votes, Mr. Ravier left the RN to hitch the candidacy of Eric Zemmour for the presidential election. He then left Reconquest! in 2024. For these 2026 municipal elections, he helps the candidacy of RN deputy Franck Allisio for Marseille Town Hall. His niece, additionally threatened with a sentence of ineligibility, can also be on the deputy’s listing.