The decision had the effect of a shock for Isabelle Balkany, first assistant of the city of Levallois-Perret. Her husband and mayor of the city, Patrick Balkany was sentenced to four years in prison and ten months of ineligibility for tax fraud on Friday. As for her, she was sentenced to three years in prison without a warrant of deposit by the Paris court.
At the microphone of Europe 1, the woman politician still feels misunderstanding a few hours after the verdict and the incarceration of her husband in the prison of Health. "When the president read the excerpt from the judgment, he was careful to say twice that there was not a penny of public money in this file, which confirms what we have always said: 'It was about heritage and family issues but it did not affect the management of our city, Levallois,' she says.
"I always assumed my mistakes"
Angry, Isabelle Balkany is struggling to contain her emotion. "I am indignant because I consider that we have made a private personal tax fault and that we have recognized it, we have made a mistake, we deserve a sanction, I have always assumed my mistakes and my husband too." what our parents taught us, "she rebels, describing the punishment as" unjust and disproportionate ".