His placement under an electronic bracelet revoked in December for multiple incidents, the Balkany couple had appealed to avoid an immediate warrant of deposit
The Rouen Court of Appeal will rule on February 3 on the Balkany couple’s appeal against the revocation of their placement under an electronic bracelet, a sentence adjustment measure which had allowed them to avoid prison, we were told. Monday learned from a judicial source.
A hearing before the sentencing chamber was held Monday morning to examine the decision of a judge in Évreux to suspend their placement under a bracelet. If the appeal of the Balkany spouses is rejected on February 3, the couple could then be the subject of a warrant of deposit.
“The hearing was this morning, it happened as it happened. The customers weren’t there. The prosecution requested confirmation of the decision of the TAP (sentence enforcement court, editor’s note) of Évreux, I requested the reversal, “said Me Romain Dieudonné, one of the couple’s lawyers. “If the sentence enforcement chamber confirms the decision of the Evreux TAP, this means that the withdrawal of their adjustment measure is final and that the prosecution will carry out the sentence that they still have to execute” , said the lawyer.
There would then remain “a legal possibility of appeal in cassation”, but this “is not suspensive”, recalled Me Dieudonné. Solicited, Isabelle Balkany’s lawyer, Pierre-Olivier Sur, refused to speak.
Hundreds of incidents
According to Médiapart, the Balkany couple’s placement under an electronic bracelet in order to serve their conviction for tax evasion was revoked on December 17, during a hearing at the Evreux sentencing court, after a hundred incidents. The Balkany spouses had appealed, thus avoiding incarceration.
The couple was sentenced on appeal in March 2020 to three years in prison for tax evasion. Following this conviction on appeal, Patrick and Isabelle Balkany, aged 73 and 74 respectively, were dismissed from their elected offices. They were then mayor LR and first deputy of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine).
Incarcerated at the end of 2019 at the Health prison in this case, Patrick Balkany was released 5 months later for health reasons.
In application of these sentences, the Balkany spouses had been placed at the beginning of 2021 under an electronic bracelet in their property of the Cossy mill, in Giverny (Eure), with exit times.