- The president of the metropolis of Lille, Damien Castelain, risks correctional for "concealment of breach of trust" in the case of the Grand Stade.
- In 2018, the prosecution had requested a dismissal of the seven people indicted or placed under the status of assisted witness in this case.
- Damien Castelain is suspected of having benefited for 18,000 euros from stones delivered via Eiffage, builder of the stadium, for a personal terrace.
The public prosecutor has requested the dismissal of the president of the metropolis of Lille (MEL), Damien Castelain, before the criminal court of Lille for “concealment of breach of trust” in the case of the Grand Stade (now known as Pierre stadium -Mauroy), we learned on Tuesday.
In 2018, the prosecution had requested a dismissal against the seven people charged or placed under the status of assisted witness in this case, including Damien Castelain. On the other hand, he had asked for additional information for a part of the case concerning this one, concerning the delivery via Eiffage to his home of stones for the construction of a terrace.
Prescription of other heads of prosecution
Following these additional investigations, the prosecution therefore considered the charges sufficiently established to require the return of the elected official (DVD) to the court. According to corroborating sources, the other counts of prosecution are either prescribed or do not constitute serious offenses.
After these requisitions, it is now up to the investigating judge to rule on this request for referral, but also on the dismissal required by the prosecution on the rest of the case.
This decision follows the indictment in August 2019, in this section, of Damien Castelain, head of the Mel since 2014. He is suspected of having benefited for 18,000 euros of stones delivered via Eiffage, builder of the stadium, for a personal terrace.
"We will go to the end"
"At least we will have discovered that Damien Castelain was not quite the right man he should be as the elected representative of the people. But we are not at the end of the case, we will go to the end, we will challenge before the instruction room the fact that Eiffage is not dismissed and we will go until cassation so that this mountain does not give birth not a mouse, "said Tuesday, AFP, Eric Darques, civil party in this case.
In addition to Damien Castelain, two former elected officials - Michèle Demessine, former PCF North senator and Henri Ségard, also a former vice-president of the institution - were targeted by this open judicial information for favoritism, forgery and use of forgery, corruption and Bribery.
An additional cost of 108.5 million euros
Two former Eiffage executives were also suspected of active trading in influence, and two community officials of forgery and the use of forgery.
Eiffage had been chosen by the urban community, while its project presented an additional cost of 108.5 million euros, compared to that, more traditional, of Bouygues.
Mayor of the small town of Péronne-en-Mélantois since 1998, re-elected in the first round in the municipal election of March 15, Damien Castelain should be a candidate for his succession as head of the metropolis at the end of the second round, June 28.
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