Isabelle Balkany "does not understand" that her husband Patrick goes to prison, she said Friday after the couple's conviction by the court for tax evasion. Figure of the French right and close to the former President Nicolas Sarkozy, Patrick Balkany, LR mayor of Levallois-Perret, was sentenced to four years in prison with a warrant of deposit. He was incarcerated mid-afternoon at the prison of Health in Paris.
"I do not understand (...) and I understand all the less that the president of the court said twice that there was not a penny of public money" in the tax fraud of the couple, reacted his wife on BFMTV, sentenced her to three years closes, without a warrant of deposit.
"Upset, bruised, sad and worried"
"I thought, perhaps naively, I should have continued my studies of law, that one put under the mandate of deposit someone who represented possibly a danger for the public order or which could leave France suddenly. this is obviously not the case for my husband, "Balkany added.
The couple has "always assumed" its faults, said the first assistant Levallois-Perret, who co-managed with her husband this opulent city near Paris. After the imprisonment of Mr. Balkany, his wife said she was "upset, bruised, sad and worried about the man she loves".