X Open the document in a new window X VERSION 10 12/05/2021 17:14 UTC + 2 The government is working on a possible dismissal of Georges Tron – Thibault Camus / AP / SIPA
While the mayor LR of Draveil (Essonne) is currently in prison for rape and sexual assault, the government claims to want to dismiss him. “On the question of Georges Tron, what I can tell you is that there is work in progress to look at the conditions under which this revocation could be done or not, there are legal issues”, a Gabriel Attal said Wednesday during a press conference after the Council of Ministers.
“I cannot tell you about decisions taken but I hope to be able to come back to you, in any case, with explanations, if necessary a decision,” added the government spokesperson.
Eric Dupond-Moretti was Georges Tron’s lawyer
Asked about the fact that the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti was authorized to answer in March before the parliament to a question concerning the dismissal of Georges Tron while he was his lawyer, Gabriel Attal explained: “On all the subjects on which Eric Dupond-Moretti had to intervene as a lawyer there is a shift in the decisions and in the preparatory work with the Prime Minister. There are a certain number of subjects which are managed by Matignon ”.
But, he justified, “a minister, a member of the government speaks to topical issues in the government to relay a position, it is the classic work of the government and you know that any minister can represent the government. to express oneself “
Still omnipresent at the town hall
After a ten-year judicial soap opera and an acquittal at first instance, Georges Tron was sentenced on appeal in February to five years in prison, three of which were closed for rape and sexual assault on a former mayor, along with six years of ineligibility.
But two months after this sentence suspended by an appeal in cassation whose former deputy and secretary of state awaits the outcome, the opposition and feminist associations criticize his “omnipresence” at the head of the town hall, while he is incarcerated in the prison of Health in Paris.
Georges Tron continues to work by phone
“It is good news that the government is finally looking into the demand of the collective and the opposition, it is a shame that a man convicted of rape continues to lead a city”, reacted François Guignard, to the head of the opposition group Draveil Transition.
Richard Privat, first deputy and substitute for the “prevented” mayor did not wish to react, assuring that he “continues to work daily with Georges Tron by telephone”. The former Secretary of State (2010-2011) has been running the city of Draveil, of 30,000 inhabitants on the right bank of the Seine, for more than 25 years. He was re-elected by more than 64% in the municipal elections in 2020.