Gilles d'Ettore affair in Agde: two Eiffage executives indicted for corruption, one of them imprisoned

The Eiffage company is located in the Hérault Méditerranée area, such as here in Saint-Thibéry. FREE MIDI – Olivier Raynaud

This Saturday evening, in the investigation which led to the detention of the mayor of Agde and a clairvoyant, an important executive of the public works company is placed under arrest warrant, announces the Béziers public prosecutor's office in a press release. Another was placed under judicial supervision.

Friday March 29, Midi Librerevealed the placement in police custody of an important executive of the Eiffage company. The public prosecutor of Béziers confirmed, this Saturday evening, this information that the construction company did not wish to comment on when one of its employees had been placed in question for suspicious actions. Finally, they are a business manager from Aude and two executives from Aude and two executives from Aude. Eiffage who were taken into police custody. One of them was placed in pre-trial detention this Saturday March 30 in the early evening, after being brought before the Béziers public prosecutor's office. Enough to shake up the Agathois landernau a little more.

Three people taken into police custody in Montpellier

"In the period from March 27 to 29, under the authority of the investigating magistrate, investigators from the financial brigade of the interdepartmental service of the Montpellier judicial police successively placed a leader in police custody of a company from Aude then two important executives from the Eiffage company", confirms the public prosecutor of Béziers, Raphaël Balland. "This Saturday, March 30, at the end of their police custody, the investigating magistrate ordered that the two executives of the Eiffage company be presented to him. They were indicted as heads of ;rsquo;breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. One of them was also indicted for active corruption and his subordinate for complicity in corruption.

An Eiffage executive placed in pre-trial detention

In the evening, in accordance with the requisitions of the Béziers public prosecutor's office, and at the request of the investigating magistrate, the first was placed in pre-trial detention by the judge of freedoms and detention. His subordinate was placed under judicial supervision, in particular being prohibited from going to the premises of the company Eiffage, from exercising any management activity of a company or agency. of a company, and to come into contact with several people linked to the current procedure.

Suspected of having participated in the work carried out at the clairvoyant's house

Both suspected of having participated in the secret financing of work carried out at the home of the woman indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on March 21. "Those indicted always benefit at this stage from the presumption of innocence", the public prosecutor insisted from Béziers. Investigations are continuing under the authority of the investigating magistrate. Since March 21, Gilles d'Ettore, the mayor of Agde and Sophie Martinez, a clairvoyant whom he regularly consulted, have been placed in pre-trial detention for "corruption, fraud, illegal taking of interest, embezzlement of public funds and concealment"