Jean-Noel Guerini – AFP
Three years in prison, including 18 months suspended. This is the sentence handed down this Friday at first instance by the Marseille Criminal Court against Marseille Senator Jean-Noël Guérini, tried in a case of rigged public contracts. The former strongman of the Socialist Party of Bouches-du-Rhône was also sentenced to a fine of 30,000 euros and five years of deprivation of civil and civil rights.
A deferred deposit warrant was issued against his brother Alexandre, sentenced to six years in prison. Alexandre Guérini will have to present himself in prison. He was further banned from running a business for five years and was deprived of his civic rights during the same period.
“You did not act without the other”, launched the judge to them, also evoking “serious attacks on public confidence”. “They made clientelism a mode of governance”, had castigated the prosecution on April 7, requiring four years of imprisonment including two firm, 70,000 euros fine and ineligibility of five years against the elected, aged 70 years . Against his younger brother Alexander the prosecutor had asked for eight years with a committal warrant and a fine of 500,000 euros.