Christophe Girard and Anne Hidalgo in February 2019. – STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP
- The Metropolis of Paris has found three expense reviews incurred by the previous elected Christophe Girard for meals with the author accused of pedophilia Gabriel Matzneff.
- One in every of them was transmitted to the Paris prosecutor’s workplace by Anne Hidalgo.
- Below stress by environmentalists, Christophe Girard, who had denied any proximity to Gabriel Matzneff, resigned final week.
The revelations proceed after the thunderclaps on the city corridor which hold shaking the partitions of the City Corridor. Final week, the Metropolis of Paris found three expense reviews incurred by the previous elected Christophe Girard for meals with the author accused of pedophilia Gabriel Matzneff, first deputy Emmanuel Grégoire stated on Tuesday confirming data from Mediapart.
In accordance with Mediapart, the companies of the Metropolis of Paris have discovered restaurant payments relationship from 2019, 2017 and 2016. The primary was despatched to the Paris prosecutor’s workplace which opened an investigation for “rape of minors” focusing on Gabriel Matzneff. “Mayor Anne Hidalgo wanted to play with transparency,” defined Emmanuel Grégoire.
Table Of Contents
“Not at all” incriminating expense reviews
As a part of this investigation, Christophe Girard was heard in March, specifically as former secretary common of Maison Yves-Saint Laurent between 1986 and 1987, a construction which supplied monetary help to the author.
Below stress by environmentalists, Christophe Girard, who had denied any proximity to Christophe Matzneff, resigned final week from his publish of Deputy Tradition, simply after the invention of those invoices. He had denounced “a general deleterious climate”.
The three expense reviews are “in no way” incriminating, nor “dissociating from what Christophe Girard said” of his relationship with Matzneff, assured Emmanuel Grégoire to AFP.
“First of all, because eating with someone does not qualify as a criminal sanction. And, secondly, Christophe Girard made no secret of having had contact with Gabriel Matzneff, whom he does not qualify as friendly but as professionals, ”he continued. Did the invention of those notes precipitate the choice to resign from Christophe Girard?
The chosen one was “in reflection for a while”
The elected was “in reflection for a while” and “could not bear to be under such malicious pressure”, replied Emmanuel Grégoire, deploring “an immense injustice which is to confuse having identified Gabriel Matzneff with accusations has minimal pedophilia or much more stunning amalgamations ”.
The Girard case brought on critical tensions between Anne Hidalgo and her environmental allies three weeks after their renewal to the Paris Metropolis Corridor.
Thursday, whereas the primary Paris Council of the time period of workplace was held, round thirty elected representatives and feminist activists gathered on the forecourt of the Hôtel de Ville. They demanded the opening of an inside investigation and the suspension of the deputy, heard in March within the investigation of the so-called Matzneff affair, and launched free from his listening to.
