Jean-Noël Guérini sentenced to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended, and five years of ineligibility for rigging public markets. The former strongman of the Socialist Party in Bouches-du-Rhône is definitively condemned.
The Court of Cassation does not rule on the merits of the cases, but on their legal conformity. Jean-No Guérini contested the rejections of procedural requests from his lawyers during the investigation, as well as his order to pay 2,000 euros in damages to anti-corruption association Anticor.