The left mayor of Marseille, Michèle Rubirola, said Monday, July 27 in Provence that the two elected officials close to Senator Samia Ghali and recently placed in police custody in an investigation into questionable proxies, " remain deputies " without delegation.
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“ They are presumed innocent. We do not give delegation, we let justice take its course. For now, they will remain deputies, ”said Michèle Rubirola. Roland Cazzola and Marguerite Pasquini, elected in the 15th and 16th arrondissements during municipal elections in Marseille, were not on the list of delegations published last week by the municipality. An absence that had not been commented on since by the mayor.
Questionable proxies
On July 16, the two elected officials had both been placed in police custody, then released without being prosecuted, in the investigation into questionable proxies established in the 8th sector, won by ex-PS senator Samia Ghali, who rallied to the left-wing union of the Marseille Spring after the elections.
This investigation follows another, also opened in Marseille on other proxies suspected of having been fraudulently established in the 4th and 6th sectors, two strongholds of the Republicans. “ The red line is exemplarity. So, if an elected official is indicted, yes, the red line is crossed, ”added the mayor elected under the banner of Printemps Marseille, with the support of environmentalists.