One would have thought that the suspicions of fictitious family jobs, which weighed on the centrist Michel Mercier, had flown away. Because there did not seem to have been any new act of investigation for more than five years. Precisely since November 2017, when a dozen agents from the Anti-Corruption Office of the Judicial Police (Oclciff) had come to the General Council of the Rhône, and had remained, for long hours, to collect documents on the passage of Michel Mercier to the presidency of the community (from 1990 to 2013).
But the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) was obviously just taking its time to study all the ramifications of the file, which goes through the Rhône Department and Parliament. The proof: the writing of the Progress has just learned, exclusively, that the former Keeper of the Seals will be sent back to the Paris court. He could be tried on October 31, and on November 2, 3, 7 and 9 before the 32e correctional chamber; at least they are…