Patrick and Isabelle face justice, season 4, episode 2453. On April 4, 2023, the Balkany couple will find themselves (again) before the Nanterre criminal court.

This time, they are accused of having broadcast two photomontages of a sexual nature by David-Xavier Weiss, their former municipal councilor in Levallois-Perret, in the Hauts-de-Seine.

The facts took place in February 2021 when the victim had become first deputy of the new majority and therefore the opponent of the couple.

Patrick and Isabelle Balkany would have wanted to harm him and push him to resign from his post.

Already convicted on several occasions, Patrick, imprisoned in Fleury-Merogis and Isabelle Balkany, hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, are being prosecuted by the court for "use of a document relating to images of a sexual nature and obtained by an attack privacy of others”.

“They expressed no regrets”

During the investigation, the Balkany spouses explained that they found the photos in an envelope in a mailbox and then sent them to several people and in particular to the current mayor of Levallois-Perret, Agnès Pottier-Dumas, for the to inform.

A few days later, David-Xavier Weiss had filed a complaint for disclosure of a document of a sexual nature.

“They expressed no regrets, which I expected at least, so I will let the courts choose the most appropriate sentence to prevent such practices from happening again,” he said on Tuesday.

“These actions are filthy and will have to be punished, once again they are outside the law and do not respect anything”, estimated his lawyer, Me Philippe Gumery, at the end of the fixing hearing.

For Me Robin Binsard, one of Patrick Balkany's lawyers, there is "judicial harassment against the Balkany", "the prosecution did not seek the identity of the first broadcaster of this photograph, he did not checked with the municipal video surveillance which had deposited the envelope which contained it ”.

Also, "dozens of people then broadcast this photograph but they are not being prosecuted, only the Balkany are", he regrets.

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