Lyon (AFP)
The mayor of Lyon Gérard Collomb judge Tuesday night "intolerable" broadcast by the Duck chained to appear Wednesday of information on the opening by the National Procuratorate of a preliminary investigation into a "possible misappropriation of public funds" in favor of his ex-companion.
Following a provisional report by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Chamber of Accounts on the management of the city of Lyon, sent to the national financial prosecutor's office, this preliminary inquiry was opened. 'weekly.
"So I can only wonder, when the conclusions of the administrative investigation are still not known, that we have been able to disseminate information both unacceptable and intolerable and already widely spread," responded Mr. Collomb in a press release sent to AFP.
"It will not escape anyone the real reasons that lead those who took the initiative to disseminate such information to reach 10 months of municipal elections," said the mayor of Lyon.
According to the rapporteurs, quoted by the Chained Duck, Gerard Collomb would have made his ex-companion (Meriem Nouri) benefit from several municipal jobs for more than twenty years.
The former Minister of the Interior "confirms that since 1995 Ms. Nouri is employed by the city of Lyon in various positions, first as a non-titular agent category C and then established as an administrative agent in June 2005".
"From 2005 to 2009, she was successively assigned to two town halls in the arrondissement and, from 2009, she was in charge of an activity of welcome and information of proximity on urban projects, in particular to the mission Serin then at the house of the Rives de Saône project until the summer of 2015, "he explains.
"For the years following 2015 to 2017, for which a report was made by his hierarchy in November 2017, I was only informed of this fact in February 2019," he says.
"I immediately took the initiative to have an administrative inquiry launched, the conclusions of which will be handed down at the end of June, and in accordance with article 40, I informed the public prosecutor." Since early 2018, Ms. Nouri has been assigned first in a municipal library and then in a borough hall where she is currently working, "said Mr. Collomb.
The mayor of Lyon intends to present himself in 2020 in municipal and metropolitan elections, but he will find on his way his former runner-up and current president of the Lyon metropolis David Kimelfeld.
? 2019 AFP