Isabelle Balkany, hospitalized since her suicide attempt last February, was released from hospital on Saturday and is "
convalescing
" at her home in Giverny (Eure), AFP learned on Sunday June 5 from a source familiar with the matter. .
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Asked by AFP, his lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur did not wish to confirm this information, "
for three reasons: professional secrecy of lawyers, medical secrecy and a requirement of dignity
".
Depending on her state of health, the former first assistant of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), aged 74, should be summoned soon by the courts.
His placement under an electronic bracelet, in execution of a three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, had been revoked by justice in February, which meant incarceration.
But she was hospitalized for four months for “
physical and psychological
” reasons and for a long covid, according to the source familiar with the matter, adding that she was “
still very tired
” on Sunday.
“
I just want to sleep, SLEEP
,” Ms. Balkany wrote on Twitter in early February, after swallowing “
significant amounts of her usual treatment
”.
“Total lack of effort”
The same day, the Rouen Court of Appeal had confirmed the decision of the Sentencing Enforcement Court (TAP) of Évreux (Eure) to revoke the placement under electronic bracelet of Isabelle and her husband Patrick Balkany, at the following numerous shortcomings.
“
They spent their time playing with fire.
At some point, it's very simple, when you play with fire, you get burned
, "said the public prosecutor of Évreux, also denouncing a"
total lack of effort to clear their tax debt
".
According to justice, a hundred "
incidents
" have caused their electronic bracelets to ring since March 2021. The Balkany spouses were under house arrest at the Cossy mill, their residence in Giverny.
Former vice-president of the Hauts-de-Seine general council, Isabelle Balkany had been sentenced to three years in prison without a warrant, the court taking into account her state of health after a first suicide attempt in early May 2019. The sentence of the couple for tax evasion had been confirmed on March 4, 2020 by the Paris Court of Appeal, accompanied by a three-year prison sentence.
It was this first part of a vast tax evasion procedure which had resulted in their placement under an electronic bracelet in March 2021.
Last Monday, the Évry prosecutor's office appealed the parole of Patrick Balkany, imprisoned in Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) since February.
He remains imprisoned until the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal.
