Agde: the public prosecutor of Béziers confirms the custody of mayor Gilles d’Ettore and a clairvoyant

The investigation is being carried out by the PJ financial brigade and the Agde police station. FREE NOON – François Barrère

No additional information will be given before Thursday March 21, once the investigating judge seized of the case has ruled on the judicial fate of these two people, indicates Raphaël Balland in a press release published this Wednesday March 20.

Twenty-four hours after the arrest at his home of the mayor of Agde Gilles d’Ettore and an Agathoise, the public prosecutor of Béziers confirms this Wednesday, March 20, the placement in police custody of the elected official and this clairvoyant, in a press release published at 2 p.m.

"The public prosecutor at the Béziers judicial court confirms that Mr. Gilles d’Ettore, mayor of Agde and president of the Hérault Méditerranée agglomeration, as well as a woman from her entourage, working as a clairvoyant and medium, are currently in police custody since the morning of March 19, 2024, as part of a judicial investigation opened to an investigating magistrate of the judicial court of Béziers" writes Raphaël Balland.

Pending possible presentations before the investigating judge

The magistrate specifies that "the investigations are carried out under the authority of the investigating judge by the Agde police station and the financial crime brigade of the interdepartmental service of the Hérault judicial police.

On the other hand, he does not provide additional information on the substance of the case : "The prosecution will not communicate further until the police custody and possible presentations before the investigating magistrate are completed. Depending on the decisions of this magistrate, the next press release from the prosecution could be issued no later than the afternoon of March 21."

The hypothesis of an indictment is not ruled out

The hypothesis of a presentation of the elected official and the clairvoyant medium before the investigating judge and therefore of a possible indictment n’ rsquo;is therefore not ruled out at this stage of the procedure, which comes after an investigation carried out for several months by the magistrate.

"In any event, the two people in police custody benefit from the presumption d’innocence" also recalls Raphaël Balland.

According to information collected by Midi Libre from corroborating sources, the investigating judge seeks to clarify the relationships between the mayor and this clairvoyant, with whom he seemed to have been in regular telephone contact, in order to determine whether possible economic or financial offenses could not have been committed in this context.

Contacted this Wednesday morning, several officials from the Agde town hall refused to make any statement on this matter, “for lack of information. "