In February, the Toulouse criminal court sentenced Brigitte Barèges, then mayor of Montauban, to five years of ineligibility, twelve months in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros. The latter was then tried for embezzlement of public funds, suspected of having financed with public funds articles favorable to its municipal policy in a local newspaper.

She was tried on appeal this Thursday in Toulouse. During this second trial, the Advocate General went further than the first conviction by asking against whom no longer has any mandate six years of ineligibility and 12 months suspended imprisonment.

“Findings” according to the Advocate General

In his requisitions, he insisted on the “guilt” of the former LR mayor of Montauban. “The facts are established and the court will have no problem rejecting the guilt of Ms. Barèges”, said François Jardin, for whom the former elected “did not know the difference between the interests of her municipality and its own interests ”.

If these requisitions were accepted, Brigitte Barèmes, now 68 years old, could not stand for future municipal elections. Mayor for twenty years, still president of the Les Républicains party in Tarn-et-Garonne, challenged his guilt at the bar. The judgment of the court of appeal was reserved.