A magistrate at the Agen Court of Appeal, in Lot-et-Garonne, was referred this Friday for indictment on 11 charges. The investigation concerns in particular the suspected links of this magistrate, stationed in Corsica between 2010 and 2016, with an alleged member of island banditry.
The magistrate's home in Agen as well as her villa in Pietrosella (South Corsica) were searched in December 2022, AFP learned from sources close to the case. Hélène Gerhards received death threats at her home in February 2016, which led the prosecutor's office to open an investigation.