The companion of Richard Ferrand was placed on Thursday night under the status of witness assisted for "complicity in illegal taking of interests and receiving" in the case of Mutuelles de Bretagne, told AFP the parquet floor of Lille.
Heard all day Thursday
The day after the indictment of the President of the National Assembly for illegal capture of interests in the same case, Sandrine Doucen was in turn heard all day by the three judges in Lille in charge of the investigation, as the l revealed The Voice of the North . "They decided to place Ms. Sandrine Doucen under the status of witness assisted for complicity in illegal taking of interests and receiving.It was also heard as legal representative of SCI SACA.The legal person was placed under the status of witness assisted for concealment, "said the prosecutor.
Richard Ferrand was indicted because the Mutuelles de Bretagne, which he then ran, decided in 2011 to rent commercial premises belonging to his partner. This faithful of the first hour of Emmanuel Macron reacted immediately with AFP in the night of Wednesday to Thursday by saying "determined to continue (his) mission".
Unexpected judicial information in Lille
The affair of Mutuelles de Bretagne, however, led Richard Ferrand to leave the government in June 2017. As soon as he was appointed Minister of Territorial Cohesion, he was pinned by Le Canard chained who had revealed the affair. The Brest public prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation in June 2017, dismissed in October. 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".
Anticor anticorruption association then filed a second complaint with civil party. The judicial information, opened in Paris, had been disoriented in Lille in July 2018, a Paris magistrate related to Anticor being at the origin of the judicial procedure.