Patrick Balkany will leave Fleury-Mérogis. Incarcerated since February in the remand center, the former LR mayor of Levallois-Perret who had requested his conditional release, finally won his case on Monday by the Evry sentence enforcement court. His lawyers announced that he would be released from prison on Wednesday, on parole. However, during the hearing behind closed doors in the prison on May 19, the prosecution opposed this release.
He had estimated that Patrick Balkany “always manifests his opposition to the principle of his conviction, despite its definitive nature, which bodes poorly for compliance with the requested sentence adjustment measure”. According to the prosecution, the former elected LR “only justifies, at most, the payment of a total sum of around 7,000 euros, since February 2022, while the tax debt for which he is responsible for repairing amounts to more than four million euros.
Detained for breach of duty
After spending five months in detention for tax evasion, then being released on an electronic bracelet for health reasons, Patrick Balkany returned to prison on February 7 due to numerous breaches of his obligations, according to justice. The placement under an electronic bracelet of his wife Isabelle, still hospitalized since her suicide attempt in February, had been revoked.
The Balkany spouses had been found guilty of not having paid wealth tax between 2010 and 2015 and of having paid a grossly undervalued income tax between 2009 and 2014, for an estimated total of 4 million euros. euros of sums evaded.