The former LR mayor of Montauban, Brigitte Barèges, returned to her seat on Wednesday evening from which she had been deposed in February, after her conviction at first instance for embezzlement of public funds, before being finally released on December 14 on appeal. "
The boss is back,
" blurted out this figure of the Occitan right after her re-election Wednesday evening by the municipal council of this city of 60,000 inhabitants that she has led since 2001. She will run for the presidency of the community of municipalities on Thursday. On December 14, the Toulouse Court of Appeal pronounced a spectacular acquittal while the Advocate General of the Toulouse Court of Appeal had requested, during the hearing on October 28, six years of ineligibility and 12 months of conditional sentence against the elected official.
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These requisitions were in line with the first instance sentence: Brigitte Barèges had been sentenced to five years of ineligibility, twelve months in prison and a 15,000 euros fine.
Justice then considered that the mayor of Montauban had financed his "
political communication
" with "
public funds
".
After learning of the decision of the court of appeal, Ms. Barèges said at a press conference in May, "
the most terrible will have been the provisional execution
."
