The mayor of Les Républicains d’Agde, in Hérault, Gilles d’Ettore, was indicted this Thursday March 21, 2024, in particular for “illegal taking of interests and corruption”and placed in pre-trial detention after being 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 the town hall of Agde, has been placed under judicial supervision, said Raphaël Balland in a press release consulted by theFrance Media Agency.
A voice from beyond
The story turns out to be incredible: this medium is in fact suspected of having used a “stratagem consisting of changing one’s voice to many people, including family members and close friends”of which the mayor of Agde, 55, was a member since their meeting in May 2020.
She would have, in a way, bewitched him “using this masculine-looking voice on the phone, calm and hoarse”in order to make him believe that he was “in conversation with a supernatural being from beyond”detailed the prosecution. “ This “voice” mainly encouraged its interlocutors to care about the well-being of this woman, including materially”specifies the press release.
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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.
In particular, she would have 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.
Scams and embezzlement
These facts led to her being prosecuted for “fraud, concealment of embezzlement by a person holding public authority, concealment of corruption and concealed work”. During her police custody, she said she regretted her behavior, maintaining that she had entered “in a spiral from which she could no longer escape”.
The mayor is being prosecuted for “misappropriation of funds by a person holding public authority, illegal taking of interests and corruption”. He has so far denied having committed any crime, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
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The clairvoyant’s husband, now banned from exercising his function as technical director of the city, is suspected of “concealment of illegal taking of interests, concealment of embezzlement by a person holding public authority and concealment of corruption”.