The President of the French National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, was indicted Wednesday, September 11 for "illegal take of interest" in the case of Mutuelles de Bretagne. The fourth character of the State immediately announced, in a statement sent to AFP, to be "determined to continue (his) mission" at the head of the Assembly.

Richard Ferrand was heard for long hours on Wednesday as part of the judicial inquiry opened in January 2018 at the request of the National Financial Prosecutor (PNF) and entrusted to magistrates Lille.

Richard Ferrand "takes note of this procedural measure that will enable him to defend himself in this case enjoying all the rights attached" to the status of indicted, is it written in a statement of the presidency of the National Assembly . He remains "serene on the outcome of the procedure, with regard to the classification without follow-up of all grievances of the first complaint on October 13, 2017, especially since no new element has been paid to this file ".

Anticor's complaint

The opening of this judicial information for unlawful taking of interest followed a complaint filed in November 2017 by the Anticor association. After five months of investigation, a first complaint had been dismissed by the prosecutor of Brest. He had invoked the prescription of a possible offense of unlawful taking of interest and found that the breaches of breach of trust and fraud were "not constituted".

The prosecutor's office of Brest opened on 1 June 2017 this procedure to determine whether or not to sue Richard Ferrand for allowing the real estate company of his companion, Sandrine Doucen, to carry a real estate market in 2011 when renting a commercial space by Mutuelles de Bretagne, which he managed from 1998 to 2012.

"This meeting should have taken place a year ago but Richard Ferrand had managed to gain some time by disorienting his record in Lille.We now wants him to explain the facts that are blamed and which are not prescribed, "said the president of Anticor, Jean-Christophe Picard, to AFP.

The case has already cost a minister's post to this loyal support of Emmanuel Macron, who resigned just one month after his appointment at the beginning of the five-year period. The elected Breton, passed by the Socialist Party before joining the Macronie, has always assured to have "nothing illegal or immoral".

With Reuters and AFP