The one-year prison sentence of a former notary from Var for endangering the tenants of one of his run-down buildings in the northern districts of Marseille was confirmed on appeal on Wednesday.
The Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal also imposed a fine of 30,000 euros on Pierre-Yves Loiseau, 44, and a ten-year ban on purchasing residential property.
She sentenced a fine of 100,000 euros to the SCI owner of the building which was confiscated. And it reduced from 25,000 to 15,000 euros the amount of damages and interest that Pierre-Yves Loiseau will have to pay two former occupants.
Denouncing an unreasonable search for profit, the court however took into account the project of employment as a lawyer mentioned by the former ministerial officer during the hearing, and the beginning of awareness, to order that the year of detention or purge under home electronic bracelet.
Between 2006 and 2009, via 23 SCIs, Pierre-Yves Loiseau acquired real estate worth four million euros.
The building at 315 rue de Lyon, Marseille, made up of 11 apartments and three businesses, was the subject of unsanitary and then danger orders as of 2012, as well as formal notices to carry out work.
The owner did not cite any legitimate reason for not carrying out this work and it was deliberately that he chose to leave the building in a state of disrepair, said the president of the court, Fabrice Naud. .
Mr. Loiseau had explained that he had requested five companies but his requests were inconsistent to urgently remedy the disorder, the court ruled.
Through a snowball effect and the inability to repay the loans taken out, his assets disappeared, causing other bans on living.
He also appeared in early November before the criminal court for refusing to carry out the work and rehouse his tenants from four other damaged buildings.
The prosecutor then described him as a fallen golden boy who thought he was doing good business, not a real slumlord, rather a totally negligent owner. The magistrate requested three years in prison, two of which were suspended, and a fine of 50,000 euros as well as two fines of 100,000 and 300,000 euros against two other of his SCIs as well as the confiscation of a building.
The judgment is expected on January 10.