Greater Lyon adopted a delegation of public service of district heating in the south-east of its territory for an amount of 350 million euros over 25 years. An anonymous email accused Greater Lyon of having favored the company which won the bid to the detriment of its competitor.
Bruno Bernard, the president of the metropolis denounced “totally false” information emanating from a “crow who did not transmit any information to the courts and demonstrated nothing” The opposition oscillated between denouncing the methods of the crow, who never revealed his identity, and questioning the probity of the public market.