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This is a new episode in the judicial soap opera of the Balkany couple. Patrick Balkany was hospitalized this Thursday, December 12 because of back pain. The mayor of Levallois-Perret appeared the day before the opening of his appeal trial for tax evasion very thin in the box of the defendants.
" A medical extraction was organized today for Mr. Balkany ", which was conducted in a hospital in Paris, said the prison administration
" He was hospitalized because he is 71 years old, he suffers horribly from the back and he has high blood pressure, " said his wife Isabelle Balkany, also retried since Wednesday before the Court of Appeal of Paris. She said she did not know for the time being that her husband, who had been detained for three months in the Health Prison, was hospitalized.
" The mousetrap at the bottom of the courthouse is terrible, the wooden bench, all that, he said he could not stand it, " she added, saying Patrick Balkany was recently operated on. a tumor on the back.
No hearing was scheduled for Thursday for the trial, which will resume Monday and end Wednesday.
Incarcerated since September 13
The mayor of Levallois-Perret has been incarcerated since September 13th at the prison of Health after a sentence of 4 years in prison for tax evasion. Isabelle Balkany, absent at the first trial after a suicide attempt, was sentenced to three years in prison without a warrant. Both were sentenced to ten years of ineligibility.
A month later, they were sentenced again for aggravated money laundering , he was five years and four. They will be retried in this case in February.
Patrick Balkany has several times filed applications for release , including health reasons and in particular a back operation. His condition had not, however, been found to be incompatible with his continued detention or attendance at his trial.
(With AFP)