Monday morning, the director of the Moulins town hall, a working-class district of Lille, was arrested at his home. According to a source close to the case, the official is suspected of having organized a “sham marriage”.
It was border police officers (PAF) who showed up at the director’s home on Monday morning and placed the latter in police custody. According to our source, the defendant’s home and the Moulins neighborhood town hall were searched before the person concerned was interviewed in the PAF premises.
An illicit marriage for papers
This information was confirmed at 20 minutes, this Thursday, by the Lille public prosecutor’s office, which specifies that the official is implicated in a “private matter of wedding organization”. The prosecution explains that the director of the local town hall is suspected of having organized a marriage “for the sole purpose of obtaining a residence permit, the benefit of protection against removal or to acquire French nationality “. In other words, a white wedding.
According to our source, this illicit marriage was not organized in the local town hall of which this man had been the director for nine years, but in Faches-Thumesnil, a town near Lille.
The suspect was still in police custody this Thursday, before being referred to the prosecution. He must appear before the Lille judicial court at the hearing on April 9, 2024. In the meantime, he has been released under judicial supervision.