Patrick Balkany takes one more step towards his incarceration. The former mayor of Levallois-Perret is summoned on Monday February 7 at 10 a.m. by the public prosecutor of Évreux (Eure), Dominique Puechmaille, a few days after the revocation of his placement under an electronic bracelet, our colleagues from BFM reveal on Sunday. TV. His wife, Isabelle Balkany, also had her bracelet placement revoked, but she was hospitalized on Thursday after a suicide attempt, according to Patrick Balkany.
Justice revoked Thursday the placement under electronic bracelet of Patrick and Isabelle Balkany, condemned for “massive tax evasion”, paving the way for the imprisonment of the former city councilor and his wife and ex-assistant. Reacting hotly to this decision on BFM TV, Patrick Balkany, 73, immediately castigated a “totally unfair decision”, saying that he was going to file a complaint “for endangering the lives of others”. He also claimed that his wife had made a new suicide attempt on Thursday after swallowing a large quantity of drugs.
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“I just want to sleep, SLEEP”
“We knew that Isabelle Balkany was exhausted. His action does not surprise me. It’s not suicide blackmail. It is the expression of a call for help, which in legal terms raises questions about the meaning, the proportionality and even the humanity of incarceration at this stage, ”said his lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur. “I just want to sleep, SLEEP”, for her part wrote on Twitter Isabelle Balkany, saying to herself “exhausted by age, mine, hatred, others, anguish for the man of my life, the injury , incurable, from the “scrub” of what I was able to do positive. »
I just want to sleep, SLEEP…
Exhausted by age, mine, hatred, others, anxiety for the man of my life, the wound, incurable, of the “scrub” of what I could do positive…
Thank you to those who made me happy to love me… and to my 4-legged loves! pic.twitter.com/37PC3FpsXV
— Isabelle Balkany (@ibalkany) February 3, 2022
In accordance with the requisitions of the general prosecutor’s office, the Rouen Court of Appeal confirmed on Thursday the decision of the Sentence Enforcement Court (TAP) of Évreux (Eure) to revoke this placement under electronic bracelet of the couple, following numerous shortcomings in their Giverny mansion, where they had been under house arrest since March. Patrick Balkany’s lawyer, Maître Romain Dieudonné, denounced in a press release a “worrying decision in law and in fact” because of his client’s state of health. The former mayor and deputy of Levallois assured him that he “almost died in prison”. And to worry: “And they send me back there. You want me to die in prison? I prefer to die at home, that’s all. »
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