The mayor of Avallon, indicted in a drug case, returns to workplace | EUROtoday

The mayor of Avallon (Yonne), Jamilah Habsaoui, indicted in April after the invention of 70 kg of hashish at her house, introduced on Friday that she would resume her duties as an elected official, as soon as once more proclaiming her innocence. “Even if the investigation is not yet closed, I can finally resume my professional activity and all my duties as an elected official”declares M^me Habsaoui, in a video posted on his Facebook web page.

This is the primary public speech by the varied left mayor since her launch below judicial supervision on May 15, after a little bit over a month in pre-trial detention. According to the newspaper Republican Yonneher return to the city corridor of Avallon was made attainable as a result of the elected official benefited on the finish of September from a rest of her judicial management which approved her to seem in Yonne.

A preliminary investigation launched in October 2023 for drug trafficking implicated two brothers of Jamilah Habsaoui as with the ability to have interaction within the buy and resale of narcotics from their sister’s house.

“We are not responsible for our loved ones”

Searches carried out on the houses of the accused, in addition to within the pharmacy the place Mr.^me Habsaoui and the Avallon city corridor, had allowed the seizure of 70 kg of hashish resin and 983 grams of cocaine, primarily on the mayor’s house, in addition to 7,143 euros in money and two gold bars.

Alongside the mayor, 5 individuals are indicted in the identical case, together with two of her brothers. “It obviously does not escape me that the involvement in this procedure of my two brothers can question and disturb”provides M^me Habsaoui in his message. “I simply remind you that we are not responsible for our loved ones even if the consequences of their individual actions can be serious and painful”provides the chosen one.

She repeats her “total innocence in this matter”by condemning “unequivocally, with the greatest firmness, this absolute scourge that drug trafficking represents”.