Convicted of rape, Georges Tron continues to be mayor … from prison

Behind bars, but with the mayor’s scarf. Georges Tron, former Secretary of State, was sentenced on Wednesday February 17, 2021 on appeal to 5 years in prison, including 3 closed, for rape and sexual assault in a meeting on Virginie Ettel, on two occasions, in November 2009 and January 2010. A verdict welcomed by activists and feminist associations. Except that today, the man is still mayor of Draveil. You just have to take a simple tour of the town’s website, located in the Essonne department in the Île-de-France region, to be sure. In detention at the prison of Health, Georges Tron refuses to resign. In A press release dating from February 22, 2021, it evoked a simple “impediment” as to his physical absence from town hall.

A request for revocation against Georges Tron

“If this refusal to resign is not surprising, his mandate as mayor can be withdrawn by decree in the Council of Ministers, which is why Osez Le Féminisme! AndAVFT (who has long called for the dismissal of elected officials who have committed sexual violence) challenged the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister by letters March 3, 2021 “, can we read on online petition asking the Council of Ministers to revoke Georges Tron from his mandate as mayor.

The European association against Violence against Women at Work (AVFT) has been leading a campaign since 2005 for mayors convicted by justice to be stripped of their civil rights and revoked. For associations, it is intolerable that a man guilty of rape retains full powers in a town hall “and consequently, the attributions of civil status officer, judicial police officer, that as such, he continues to ensure, under the control of the prefect, the application of laws and regulations, that ‘he continues to exercise municipal police power and hierarchical authority over municipal staff. ” The petition therefore requires a revocation procedure, based on article 2122-16 of the General Code of Territorial Collectivities : “The mayor and the deputies, after having been heard or invited to provide written explanations of the facts with which they are accused, can be suspended by reasoned ministerial decree for a period which does not exceed one month. They can only be dismissed. by reasoned decree taken in the Council of Ministers. ”

On this Thursday, April 22, 2021, nearly 35,000 signatures were recorded, including that of Clémentine Autain, Member of Parliament for Seine Saint-Denis.