Death of Serge Poinsot: a mayor “close to the people” for the inhabitants, despite the corruption cases

Seventeen years.

This is the period during which Serge Poinsot will have been at the head of the town hall of Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne).

Ill, he died on July 23 at the age of 74.

He will be buried this Wednesday in Valenton (Val-de-Marne).

He was elected for the first time in 2001. In October 2018, during his third term, he was forced to resign after being indicted for corruption by person invested with an elective mandate, laundering of tax fraud and passive corruption at usual title in the context of the France Pierre case.

He was even placed in pre-trial detention for two and a half months.

Despite these legal upheavals, the inhabitants of Vigneux, whom we interviewed on Tuesday, remember a man close to his constituents.

“He was accessible, I had already spoken to him several times.

He organized festivities and went there himself to meet the inhabitants,” recalls Ourida, who has lived in Vigneux-sur-Seine for 30 years.

Many prefer to forget the fall of their former mayor to focus on his person and his actions for the city.

"His problems with the law, it does not concern me"

“I put the human before the rest, admits Serge, invested in the sports clubs of Vigneux.

His problems with the law are none of my business.

I have very fond memories of his time there.

He was a big sports fan, and he did a lot for the sports associations in town.

It touched me personally.

For others, the name of Serge Poinsot does not evoke much.

Latifa questions, laughing: “He's the one who went to prison for stories of shenanigans, isn't he?

I'm not too interested in politics, and that's the only echo I've heard of him.

However, the action of Serge Poinsot in 17 years of mandate marked many inhabitants.

“The city has changed a lot.

He built housing, helped relocate people… He fulfilled his role as mayor,” congratulates Ourida.

If some prefer to retain the helpful man rather than a corrupt politician, others cannot evade his judicial record.

“It's a pity that this story of corruption ruins everything…, laments Pascal.

Even if I have the impression that it is the norm at the moment for mayors to fall into illegality when we see what is happening in Draveil or Montgeron...

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