The arrest of the elected DVD took place on Tuesday "as part of the execution of an arrest warrant from the investigating magistrate following multiple and repeated violations of his judicial control", indicated the Marseille prosecutor. Dominique Laurens.
He was arrested at Barcarès, according to a local source.
The 62-year-old elected official was imprisoned in Perpignan prison, said the prosecution, specifying that he had to be transferred to Marseille to be presented to the investigating judge of the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) in charge of this case. , within four days.
It will then be up to the judge of freedom and detention to decide whether the mayor of Barcarès remains under judicial control or if he is placed in pre-trial detention, the prosecutor told AFP.
The prosecution did not specify the nature of the judicial review violations.
This figure of the right of the Pyrénées-Orientales had been indicted in May 2021 for extortion in an organized gang, embezzlement and complicity in the destruction of evidence, committed over the period of 2015-2020.
He was then placed under judicial control, accompanied by the payment of a deposit and a ban on going to the Pyrénées-Orientales department.
This last measure was then relaxed, allowing him to go on certain days to his department, to his town and to Perpignan.
Elected for the first time in 1995 as mayor, Mr. Ferrand and his wife Joëlle succeeded each other at the town hall of Barcarès, according to the ineligibility of one and the other.
In 1999, Mr. Ferrand was sentenced to three years of ineligibility for misuse of corporate assets.
He was also subsequently convicted of illegal taking of interest and tax evasion.
During the municipal elections of 2020, Alain Ferrand was re-elected hands down, from the first round, as mayor of Barcarès, 6,000 inhabitants year-round but whose population can be multiplied by ten in summer.
In 2021, he failed in the departmental elections.
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