Six months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros were requested this Thursday by the deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Puy-en-Velay, Rodolphe Part, against Marc Boléa, 67, elected to the departmental council de la Haute-Loire, who appeared before the criminal court of Puy-en-Velay for a pimping case in which he was prosecuted for "complicity in tolerating prostitution in a public place".
The deputy prosecutor also requested a twelve-month sentence against his hotel partner, owner of the lodge and accommodation located in the city center of Puy where a dozen prostitutes from Africa and North America worked. South.
Room rents were paid in cash and the couple turned a blind eye to what was going on.
He stopped on the ground floor
If the deputy prosecutor "did not want to set an example with Mr. Boléa because he was elected", he nevertheless considered that the latter had committed offenses and that there should be a sanction against him: " Mr. Boléa cannot deny that he was aware of prostitution activity.
It was even he who sometimes transported his partner to the lodge, who helped her when it was necessary to transport the laundry.
He even went there from time to time to drink coffee.
But he stopped on the ground floor, as he explained during the hearing.
Had he received or even taken advantage of the rent money paid to his partner by prostitutes?
The answer is no.
"Laundering of what?"
I never received a single penny.
We live together, but we have never interfered in the affairs of one or the other, ”said Marc Boléa to the president of the tribunal.
A very generous grandfather
“It is not because he had 10,000 euros in cash at home that he carried away money laundering.
He was able to justify the bank withdrawals.
It was to pay gifts to her grandchildren and finance a trip to Senegal.
This folder is empty!
"Was then carried away Me Antoine Vey, representing Marc Boléa, during his plea, denouncing" a staging of all the procedures ".
The lawyer unsurprisingly requested the release of his client.
His colleague representing the companion of the elected, Me Aurélie Chambon, she considered "that a suspended sentence seemed justified".
While asking the president of the court not to reduce it “to a moment in her life when, overworked, she was completely overwhelmed by her hotel activities.
The decision was put under advisement as of March 18.