Patrick and Isabelle Balkany will serve their three-year prison sentence at home, in their manor in Giverny.
This Thursday, the sentencing judge of Évreux (Eure) granted the Balkany spouses their placement under an electronic bracelet.
Formally, it is a “home detention under electronic surveillance”.
The sentence to be served is that which the Paris Court of Appeal pronounced on March 4, 2020, for tax fraud.
The one that cost Patrick Balkany his mayor's scarf and Isabelle Balkany's deputy post.
The appeals court having made the imprisonment an ineligibility sentence, they were dismissed from their duties 48 hours later.
At first instance, the former mayor of Levallois was sentenced to four years with a committal warrant.
This is why he was immediately taken to prison, where he spent five months between September 2019 and February 2020 before being released for medical reasons.
Parole within a year
The sentence being final, the lawyers of the Balkany spouses, My Romain Dieudonné for Patrick, Pierre-Olivier Sur for Isabelle had seized the judge of enforcement of sentences of Evreux.
They argued before him a few weeks ago and the decision was rendered this Thursday.
The devices are expected to be wrapped around their ankles within three weeks.
Concretely, the former mayor of Levallois and his wife will only have the right to leave their home for a few hours during the day.
They also have an obligation to reimburse the tax authorities.
If, however, they take some liberty with the obligations imposed, they run the risk of incarceration.
But already, the judge of application of sentences has accepted their conditional release at the end of a probationary period under electronic bracelet, which cannot exceed one year.
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As for their conviction for laundering tax fraud, it is not final since the couple appealed to the Supreme Court.