Gauthier Delomez, with AFP 7:14 p.m., August 12, 2022
A week after Patrick Balkany's release from prison, detained for five months at Fleury-Mérogis for tax evasion, his wife Isabelle spoke of her husband's return to the family home.
In the program "Europe Soir Week-end", she gives her news, when he "lost terribly" after his incarceration.
Skinny in a green shirt that has become too big, with long hair slicked back and shaved, Patrick Balkany said he was "relieved" to be released from prison last Friday during an impromptu interview in front of the gate of the Cossi mill, his home. in Giverny in the Eure.
"I am happy to come to rest, to find my wife, to find my dogs and my house", he added alongside Isabelle Balkany, visibly happy to find her husband.
On Europe 1, the former journalist gave news of her husband.
The Balkany couple responded to the press, shortly after the release of the former mayor of Levallois-Perret from prison.
Credits: Jean-François MONIER / AFP
Two postponed surgeries, assures Isabelle Balkany
"I would describe his return (home) in two words: happiness first, but above all fatigue", assures Isabelle Balkany at the microphone of Jeanne Baron.
"He had at least two surgeries which were postponed", she continues, "and he has lost weight terribly. He is tired, very very tired, and I am coming out of a very heavy operation", underlines the companion of Patrick Balkany.
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Europe Soir Week-end
, Isabelle Balkany acknowledges that the couple committed "a crime" that they "always assumed".
"But the words have a meaning: an offense is not a crime", defends the politician, who is also angry with the "media court": "It's terrible because it's anonymous. It's to the both a torrent of benevolence and a torrent of hate."