Preliminary investigation opened after a complaint by an individual against the Senate. It was finally classified "for absence of offense", according to the PNF.
The offence of favouritism is not applicable to authorizations of temporary occupation of the public domain, but only to public contracts, public service delegations and concessions. The prosecutor's office is suing the Senate for the loss of the tennis courts at the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. The courts were inaugurated in 1939 on a concession granted free of charge by the Senate to the Federation.