The right mayor of Hesdin, in the Pas-de-Calais, Stéphane Sieczkowski-Samier, was detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into "embezzlement of public funds", they said. from a judicial source. The elected 26-year-old was detained Wednesday morning at 9 am with his mother Christiane Samier, a city councilor, the source said, without further details at this stage.
Stéphane Sieczkowski-Samier has a tumultuous mandate since being elected in 2014 at the age of 22, at the head of this municipality of 2,200 inhabitants. It is particularly targeted by other investigations: for "acquisition of weapons of the third category", "illegal capture of interest" and "complicity of forgery and use of forgery in public writing".
The Constitutional Council declared him ineligible for three years. In the latter case, the mayor was indicted, as was his mother, a city councilor, and the former chief of the municipal police. The city is suspected of having sent in April 2016 in the sub-prefecture a false deliberation of the city council who decided to entrust the management of communal housing to the real estate agency belonging to his mother. He is also suspected of having bought with the money from the town hall two soft gum revolvers for an unknown reason, the municipal police not being authorized to wear them.
In addition, he was declared ineligible for three years in 2018 by the Constitutional Council because of the rejection of his campaign accounts in the legislative elections of 2017.