The Basse-Terre Court of Appeal, Guadeloupe, on Tuesday confirmed a two-year suspended prison sentence and a 100,000-euro fine against Lucette Michaux-Chevry.
The former minister of Jacques Chirac was found guilty of non-compliance with the environment and health code and of favoritism in the award of a public contract.
The judgment on appeal confirms the decision and the sentence rendered at first instance on November 19, 2019, convicting Ms. Michaux-Chevry, now 91 years old.
She would have indicated her intention to appeal on points of law.
Chlordecone, a very toxic pesticide
Lucette Michaux-Chevry is also sentenced to five years of ineligibility and to a definitive ban from exercising any public office.
By resigning from the presidency of the Greater South Caribbean agglomeration community in January 2019, leaving a copious slate, the former senator had said to put an end to her political career.
The lady was notably judged for not having controlled the production and distribution of water in an area polluted by chlordecone, a very toxic pesticide, and in water drawn from an illegal abstraction in addition, for environmental pollution. due to a lack of sanitation equipment.
Lucette Michaux-Chevry was also placed in police custody last summer, to be heard in the case of the "campaign financing" of the president of the Guadeloupe region, Ary Chalus, during the regional elections of 2015.