BSoon back behind bars, the Balkany spouses would have spent their time “playing with fire”. According to the Évreux prosecutor’s office, the couple showed a “total lack of effort to clear their tax debt”. “At some point, it’s very simple, when you play with fire, you get burned,” said the public prosecutor of Évreux, Dominique Puechmaille, to Agence France-Presse, Friday February 4.
The day before, the Rouen Court of Appeal confirmed the revocation of the Balkany’s placement under an electronic bracelet, paving the way for their next incarceration. The former mayor (LR) of Levallois-Perret and his wife, ex-deputy, were under house arrest in their property in Giverny (Eure). The magistrate also denounced “a total lack of effort to clear their tax debt”, subject of the conviction for tax evasion. “Before the revocation, there were many reframings for each of them which remained a dead letter,” added Dominique Puechmaille.
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“Completely comfortable” income
According to the judgment concerning Patrick Balkany, “his attitude and his vehement remarks, often outrageous, even outrageous, both towards the staff of the prison administration and the sentence enforcement judge, illustrated his inability to comply to the restrictions imposed within the framework of the modifications of the three-year prison sentence, the severity of which he continued to contest, even the merits”. In addition to some unjustified alarms, Patrick Balkany has “never respected his main particular obligation”, namely that of paying the sums due to public finances, despite his very large tax debt.
According to a judicial source, the couple would have “quite comfortable” incomes. The reasons for the judgment concerning Isabelle Balkany are similar. “There are appointments they did not go to. There are dates they were particularly unpleasant. There were deadlines that were set by the judge to make efforts and all that remained a dead letter, ”also specified the judicial source. As for the perimeter to be respected, “the beep did not stop ringing because, each time, they were at the limit of the perimeter”.