It was a complaint that had been filed in the middle of the presidential campaign. Valérie Pécresse announced on Wednesday the dismissal by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office, for lack of infringement, of the complaint filed by elected Greens against the president of the Île-de-France region for illegal taking of interests with the company Alstom . Valérie Pécresse, who welcomed this decision, immediately filed a complaint for slanderous denunciation and regretted a “coarse political manipulation”.
“She will not allow her honor or her family to be soiled by this new manipulation by The Greens of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure for the purposes of slander, while her personal and family patrimonial situation was public, known since 2016, in accordance with HATVP obligations,” the statement said.
Asked, the PNF confirmed the classification of this investigation which “demonstrated that there were no links of interest between the president of the Ile-de-France region and the company Alstom at the time of the allocation of the subsidies. “.
Several EELV elected officials had denounced to the public prosecutor the fact that Valérie Pécresse allegedly held stock options at Alstom while presiding over the transport authority IDFM. These elected officials, including Mr. Pegeon and David Belliard, deputy (EELV) to the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (PS), relied on an article from the online media Blast accusing the president of the region of having “invisibilized” shares of Alstom that she held with her husband so that they no longer appear in her declarations of interest.
Jérôme Pécresse worked at Alstom until the takeover of the group’s energy activities by General Electric in November 2015. A month later, Valérie Pécresse was elected head of the region and quickly created, according to Blast, a trust, arrangement also known by the Anglo-Saxon term of trust, so that a bank manages this portfolio of shares for them. Since then, IDFM has ordered nearly 2.4 billion euros in rolling stock from Alstom, according to elected environmentalists.
Valérie Pécresse’s complaint for “slanderous denunciation” sent to the Paris prosecutor’s office
The PNF informed her that her complaint for “slanderous denunciation” against the elected EELV has just been transmitted to the Paris prosecutor’s office for investigation, indicates Valérie Pécresse.