A commercial shed of a company selling metal beams that had nothing even remotely to do with agriculture.
It is for having installed this additional activity on a cultivable plot in the town of Lanta, west of Toulouse, that Serge Bouscatel, the current president of the Haute-Garonne Chamber of Agriculture, was sentenced on Monday by the criminal court.
He receives, reports France Bleu Occitanie, a ten-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 10,000 euros and three and a half years of ineligibility for "violations of the rules of town planning".
Marc Mengaud, mayor of Lanta and uncle of Serge Bouscatel, was given a six-month suspended prison sentence and three and a half years of ineligibility for "illegal taking of interests".
He helped his nephew settle on the agricultural plot and then tried to modify the Land Use Plan to bring the illegal shed into compliance.
Six months to return to agricultural use
The installation of Serge Bouscatel's company in Lanta dates back to 2016. The diversion of the agricultural vocation of the plot had been noted by the France Nature Environnement (FNE) collective in 2019 and then revealed by the
Canard Enchaîné
.
The sentences of ineligibility pronounced by the court are with “provisional execution”.
If the two defendants do not appeal, they will have to resign from their mandates.
As for the plot, it must return to agricultural activity within six months.
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