The mayor of Les Républicains d’Agde (Hérault), Gilles d’Ettore, was indicted on Thursday, notably for “illegal taking of interests and corruption”, and placed in pre-trial detention after having been trapped and then corrupted by a medium, announced the Béziers prosecutor.
This 44-year-old woman, self-employed in Agde, who presents herself as a clairvoyant, medium and “healer”, was also placed in pre-trial detention at the end of her 48 hours in police custody. Her husband, current director of technical services at Agde town hall, has been placed under judicial supervision, Raphaël Balland said in a press release.
The story turns out to be incredible: this medium is in fact suspected of having used a “stratagem consisting of modifying her voice with numerous interlocutors, including members of her family and close friends”, of which the mayor of ‘Agde, 55 years old, since their meeting in May 2020.
She would have somehow bewitched him “by using this apparently masculine voice on the telephone, calm and hoarse”, in order to make him believe that he was “in conversation with a supernatural being coming from beyond”. detailed the prosecution. “This “voice” mainly encouraged its interlocutors to be concerned about the well-being of this woman, including materially,” the press release specifies.
“Scams”
Through this stratagem, she admitted during her police custody to having benefited from numerous services of different natures, mainly from Gilles d’Ettore, LR mayor of Agde since 2001, president of the Hérault Méditerranée agglomeration and former deputy (UMP) from 2007 to 2012. She would have notably obtained the recruitment within the municipality or agglomeration of five people who are members of her family or her close friendly circle, including her own husband as technical director of the town hall. .
These facts led to her being prosecuted for “fraud, concealment of embezzlement by a person holding public authority, concealment of corruption and concealed work”.
The mayor is being prosecuted for “embezzlement by a person holding public authority, illegal taking of interests and corruption”.
Finally, the clairvoyant’s husband is suspected of “concealment of illegal taking of interests, concealment of embezzlement by a person holding public authority and concealment of corruption”.