This Wednesday, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced Jean-Christophe Lagarde (UDI) to ten months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 60,000 euros for the fictitious employment of his mother-in-law as a parliamentary assistant.
The magistrates also pronounce a sentence of ineligibility of two years against the former deputy, who is only 11th deputy to the municipal council of Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis).
In its conclusions, justice deplores that "Jean-Christophe Lagarde while he was invested with a public service mission failed in the duty of probity and exemplarity".
Monique Lavail, her mother-in-law, was given a four-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 20,000 euros.
Civil party in this file, the National Assembly wins the case: the two defendants will have to reimburse “jointly and severally 75,876 euros”, representing the wages paid unduly.
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The requisitions during the trial of October 3 were greater than the sentence imposed: one year in prison, a 60,000 euro fine and five years of ineligibility against Jean-Christophe Lagarde, six months in prison suspended and 20 000 euros fine against Monique Lavail.
The latter is the mother of Aude Lagarde (UDI), current mayor of Drancy and wife of Jean-Christophe.
This former manager of a materials trading company, now 69, was hired by her son-in-law as a parliamentary assistant to the National Assembly, from May 11, 2009 to August 16, 2010, against compensation total of 39,815 euros.
Its mission: to help Jean-Christophe Lagarde write a book on the various difficulties of small and medium-sized businesses.
At the hearing, Monique Lavail had failed to prove the reality of her work.
The research carried out under the direction of the national financial prosecutor's office had also been unsuccessful.
It is not known, at this stage, whether Jean-Christophe Lagarde will appeal this conviction, which would deprive him of any elective mandate within the city of which he was the mayor between 2001 and 2017.
