- Brigitte Barèges, the LR mayor of Montauban, has just been sent to court for embezzlement of public funds.
- She confirmed it to her constituents herself in a Facebook post.
- She is suspected of having granted a fictitious job in exchange for laudatory articles in the local newspaper.
This is her type, she doesn't let anyone cut her off. Brigitte Barèges, the mayor LR of Montauban announced herself in a Facebook post addressed to her constituents her referral to the criminal court for "embezzlement of public funds".
"My lawyer called me yesterday to inform me that the Toulouse investigating judge had made an order for the correctional of the four people indicted in this case, including me," she wrote, adding that the date The trial is not scheduled and will likely not take place for a year.
This direct communication allows the city councilor, candidate for his re-election, to be surprised at the passage of a “strange coincidence (…) a month before the electoral deadline of March 15” for a file that “has not changed " since five years ".
A job against rave items?
The case broke out in February 2014 with the filing of a complaint from a former employee of Brigitte Barèges at the town hall. Recently dismissed, the latter revealed that he was only used to write laudatory articles on the mayor in his weekly Tarn-et-Garonne, Le Petit Journal . A second complaint followed, filed by the former director of cabinet of the elected official, also thanked shortly before. A fourth person is indicted in this case: the director of communication of the town hall at the time.
This file has already almost cost her scarf to Brigitte Barèges. In October 2014, the administrative court rejected his March municipal campaign accounts which did not mention the payment of the famous articles to his glory. But, who is also a lawyer, won her case in May 2015 before the Council of State.
Another battle therefore opens for her, at the worst time. "It goes without saying that I will continue when the time comes before the court, to plead my innocence and to challenge the slanderous denunciations of which I have been the subject from my ex-collaborators", announces the outgoing mayor.
"I await the judgment of the Montalbanais", she also told this Thursday to La Dépêche du Midi. , alluding to the municipal ballot.
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Montauban: mayor Brigitte Barèges indicted for misappropriation of public funds
- Brigitte Barèges
- Montauban
- Misappropriation of public funds
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