Less than a week after the revocation of his electronic bracelet, the former mayor of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) is summoned this Monday morning by the prosecutor of Évreux.
Patrick Balkany is summoned this Monday, February 7, at 10 a.m. by the prosecutor of Évreux, indicate BFM and France televisions this Sunday, citing the entourage of the person concerned. This decision follows the revocation of the placement under electronic bracelet of the Balkany couple by the Court of Appeal of Rouen, revealed by Le Figaro Thursday.
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This revocation of the electronic bracelet occurred in particular on the grounds of a few hundred “incidents” on the part of the Balkany spouses, in particular by ringing their bracelets because of delays. It paves the way for incarceration.
A medical certificate deeming his health “not compatible” with detention
This Friday, the former mayor of Levallois had however made public a note mentioning several recent interventions and a “very precarious” state of health, “not compatible” with detention. The letter, mentioned by The Parisian is signed by a professor of digestive surgery, who follows the medical file of Patrick Balkany in a Parisian hospital.
After five months in prison between September 2019 and February 2020, Patrick Balkany had already been released under judicial supervision for medical reasons. As for his wife Isabelle, who also saw her placement under a bracelet revoked on Thursday, she is still hospitalized after a suicide attempt made in the wake of the judgment of the Rouen Court of Appeal. Friday, after waking up, the one who was first assistant to Levallois also announced that she had tested positive for covid-19.
The Balkany spouses had been sentenced on appeal to three years in prison for tax evasion in March 2020, then to, respectively, five and four years in detention for the former executive of the Ile-de-France right and his wife, for laundering fraud. tax.
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