Nanterre (AFP)
Patrick Balkany was hospitalized Thursday because of back pain, the day after the opening of his trial on appeal for tax evasion, it was learned from his wife, confirming information of BFMTV.
"He was hospitalized because he is 71 years old, he suffers horribly from the back and he has high blood pressure," said Isabelle Balkany, also retried since Wednesday before the Paris Court of Appeal. She said she did not know for the time being that her husband, who had been detained for three months in the Health Prison, was hospitalized.
"The mousetrap at the bottom of the courthouse is terrible, the wooden bench, all that, he said he could not stand it," she added, saying that Patrick Balkany has recently been operated on. a tumor on the back.
No hearing was scheduled for Thursday for the trial, which will resume Monday and end Wednesday.
Wednesday, the mayor of Levallois-Perret appeared very thin in the box of the defendants. After an hour of debate, Isabelle Balkany had asked to be able to give medicine to her husband who "suffers from the back".
The president even ended up having a padded chair installed in the box so that Patrick Balkany could take his place. He has been incarcerated since September 13th in the prison of Health after a sentence of 4 years in prison for tax evasion.
Isabelle Balkany, absent at the first trial after a suicide attempt, was sentenced to three years in prison without a warrant. Both were sentenced to ten years of ineligibility.
A month later, they were sentenced again for aggravated money laundering, he was five years and four. They will be retried in this case in February.
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