The public prosecutor's office requested four months of suspended prison sentence and three years of ineligibility against the former president of Tours Métropole, Wilfried Schwartz, for violence against his chief of staff, Tuesday July 5 before the court of Orleans call.
At first instance, in December 2021, the current mayor of La Riche (Indre-et-Loire) had been sentenced by the judicial court of Tours to six months of ineligibility and a fine of 5,000 euros, in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution.
During the hearing on Tuesday, Advocate General Isabelle Pagenelle deplored "
the inability to recognize
" his faults at the end of the first trial and the will of the elected official to "
dirty the victim
".
"
I have no doubt that Wilfried Schwartz committed these acts
", launched the magistrate, pointing to "
a moment of bewilderment
", "
an inadmissible gesture
", in a tense political context.
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At first instance, the city councilor had been found guilty of "
intentional violence resulting in total incapacity for work of less than eight days by a person holding public authority
".
In this case, of having inflicted a slap on the face of his former chief of staff, in his office in metropolitan France, on June 23, 2021. During the first trial, the one who is now vice-president of metropolitan France had challenged the facts, evoking a simple argument and a plot hatched against him.
It is again this line of defense that he chose before the Court of Appeal.
This thesis "
does not take five minutes
“, Estimated Isabelle Pagenelle, pointing in particular to the fact that Wilfried Schwartz was still in charge of the metropolis.
Judgment was reserved for September 20.