Basse-Terre (AFP)
Lucette Michaux-Chevry, 90, former president of Greater Grand Caribe (Guadeloupe), was sentenced on Tuesday to two years suspended sentence by the Criminal Court of Basse-Terre for failure to comply with the Code of Conduct. environment and health, and favoritism in awarding a public contract.
Mrs. Michaux Chevry, former minister of Jacques Chirac, is also sentenced to five years of ineligibility and is permanently banned from performing a public service. The whole is accompanied by a fine of 100,000 euros, sum weighed down by the judge. At the trial in mid-October, the prosecutor had required 45,000 euros fine. Deliberation was pronounced in the absence of the defendant.
"I think that my client will appeal this decision," said media lawyer Gérard Plumasseau. "In fact, it's a facsimile of the prosecutor's decisions and I want to see why, because it has to be motivated, I'm waiting to understand the scope and the meaning of this conviction," he said. added.
Mrs Michaux-Chevry was judged for not having controlled the production and distribution of water in zone polluted by Chlordecone, a water drawn from an illegal catchment moreover, for pollution of the environment because of a defect of sanitation equipment, and for a case of favoritism in awarding a public contract relating to transport.
It is also indicted in a case of misappropriation of public funds and money laundering alleged to the Greater South Caribbean Urban Community, whose trial will be held in early 2020.
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