“These are big words for not much,” sweeps Gérard Hébert. But it’s true that when you take titles like that, it can be scary. »Receive and embezzlement of public funds : These are the “titles” that are scary, according to the current deputy mayor of Étampes. Gérard Hébert, but also, therefore, Franck Marlin, maire (LR) of the municipality, will be tried on June 3 by the Criminal Court of Évry-Courcouronnes, according to our information. The town planning assistant faces up to five years’ imprisonment for concealment. Franck Marlin risks up to ten years in prison for diversion.
Concretely, the justice reproaches the Etampois mayor of having paid his assistant – at the time of the collaborating facts of the firm (and not elected) – an indemnity of around 25,000 euros under a contractual rupture, on the deniers of the city. A sum that he should not have pocket, according to the law, because of his status as a contractual which prevented him from benefiting from these conditions.
