The Marseille Criminal Court before which Senator Jean-Noël Guérini and his brother Alexandre were appearing for alleged public procurement rigging alongside ten other defendants, this Wednesday, April 7, reserved his judgment on May 28.
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The prosecution required four years including two firm, 70,000 euros fine and a five-year ineligibility against the elected, former figure of the Socialist Party in the Bouches-du-Rhône, and eight years firm with warrant of deposit and 500,000 euros fine against his younger entrepreneur.
The lawyers of the two defendants pleaded their release.
"
I assure you that there was no will on my part to commit an illegal taking of interests and I have complete confidence in the justice of my country
", explained Jean-Noël Guerini before the court closes the debates.
"
If Jean-Noël Guérini was not prosecuted, Alexandre Guérini would never have had this trial because the one we want to reach, the one we want to eliminate, is Jean-Noël
", had previously denounced Jean- Louis Seatelli, lawyer of Alexandre Guérini by denouncing a justice "
instrumentalised, manipulated
" by "
the political politics
".
The former president of the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône and strong man of the PS of the department Jean-Noël Guérini was tried for having preempted land in La Ciotat (30 km from Marseille) under the pretext of saving a rare plant there. , the downy bindweed, then to have sold it to the agglomeration community Garlaban Huveaune Sainte-Baume (GHB) to favor his brother who needed it for the extension of a landfill.
Alexandre Guérini, entrepreneur in waste management and central figure in the trial for seven offenses, was accused of having taken advantage of his brother's position to put pressure on elected officials or officials in order to circumvent public procurement procedures, s '' enrich, eliminate competitors or favor relatives.
Sentences ranging from one year suspended to two years in prison including one firm, and fines of 15,000 to 100,000 euros were finally required against the ten other defendants - elected officials, territorial officials, company directors and the company of Alexander Guérini the "
SMAE
" -, suspected of having participated in the "
Guérini system
".
The lawyers for nine of them pleaded for acquittal.
