The 40th anniversary concert of Kassav ‘interests justice. Pierre-Edouard Décimus, one of the creators of the West Indian music group, and an official spent more than 30 hours in police custody, we learned, Wednesday evening from a judicial source confirming information from local media.
The hearings of the musician and the official Rudy Vardarassian in the premises of the Zonal Direction of the Judicial Police in Abymes focused on the concert of December 2019, in Baie-Mahault in Guadeloupe. The custody was lifted shortly after 7 pm Wednesday evening and “the investigation is continuing,” said Michaël Ohayon, deputy prosecutor of the Republic of Pointe-à-Pitre.
Preliminary investigation for “breach of trust, fraud”
The two men have been questioned since Tuesday morning 9 am, as part of a preliminary investigation opened for “breach of trust, swindle”, and “illegal taking of interests concerning Rudy Vardarassin”, an official at the Cap agglomeration community Excellence, which brings together the municipalities of Pointe-à-Pitre, Les Abymes and Baie-Mahault. This concerns “the conditions in which he had intervened while he was in office at Cap Excellence” about the anniversary concert, according to the same source.
The investigation began in October 2020 following a report from the Regional Chamber of Accounts of Guadeloupe to the prosecution on irregularities within the Sign’Alizé association, chaired by Pierre-Edouard Décimus. It is “the management of the association within the framework of the concert of 40 years of Kassav ‘” which is thus questioned. Searches took place in the context of this case, in particular within the association and at the respective homes of the two men, Tuesday, according to Michaël Ohayon. They were released without being charged.