Karim Zéribi sentenced to two years in prison

The former elected ecologist Karim Zéribi.

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According to

, the Marseille Criminal Court sentenced this Wednesday to two years in prison and three years of ineligibility Karim Zéribi, ex-elected Marseille often presented as "spokesman for the suburbs" and suspected of having hijacked amounts from grants paid to associations for personal political purposes.

This 53-year-old railway worker, the son of a railway worker, is today director of societal commitment and ecological transition at SNCF, columnist in the program

after having been one

 of RMC's

Mouths.

Former MEP, the ex-elected Marseille, whose last term of municipal councilor elected in 2014 under the EELV label ended not long ago, was appearing for breach of trust and abuse of corporate assets.

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• Conviction

• Marseilles

• Jail

• Breach of trust