- In the commune of Beausoleil, two candidates clash, the outgoing mayor and a former municipal employee.
- The second, a time charged with rape, filed a report against the outgoing for embezzlement of public funds.
- Gérard Spinelli has announced his intention to file a defamation complaint.
In this border town of Monaco, east of the Alpes-Maritimes, there may not be more than two to present themselves at the polls, the atmosphere is extremely electric as the ballot approaches. To cut with a knife.
In Beausoleil, the outgoing mayor Gérard Spinelli (LDIV) and his former collaborator Stéphane Manfredi, supported by the National Rally, must campaign with, in the background, cases before the courts.
At the origin of a denunciation to the National Financial Prosecutor's Office for embezzlement of public funds against the first, the second, former head of the protocol service at the town hall between 2012 and 2019, was until recently the subject of a complaint for rape.
"Costs borne by the city in a potentially improper manner"
"A case recently closed without further action," said Thursday at 20 minutes the prosecutor of the Republic of Nice Xavier Bonhomme. A preliminary investigation, entrusted to the PJ of Nice has however been launched on the lifestyle of the mayor of Beausoleil.
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“It relates to costs borne by the city in a potentially improper manner. But the opening of an investigation in no way prejudges its conclusions, "said the magistrate about this case transmitted from the National Financial Prosecutor's Office to the Nice Prosecutor's Office in September. It was in fact an article by Mediapart that revived it.
Mayor wants to file defamation complaint
In the file he assembled, Stéphane Manfredi, former parish priest of the diocese of Monaco, made in particular the list of meals, supporting documents, paid by the city but which would be "private". An accusation "obviously false and particularly malicious", reacted the outgoing mayor, elected since 1989 and already worried in another case, in Nice-Matin .
Thursday, in the columns of the regional daily, Gérard Spinelli, who seems to race in the lead in the ballot, announced that he was preparing to file a complaint against his former collaborator and also against the pure player. For defamation and for the dissemination of false information in order to manipulate an electoral ballot.
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