“It’s dizzying”: the mayor of Agde Gilles d’Ettore and a clairvoyant in police custody in an investigation deemed “supernatural”

Gilles d'Ettore est maire d'Agde depuis 2001. Midi Libre – PIERRE SALIBA

Tous deux ont été arrêtés mardi matin sur ordre d’un juge d’instruction de Béziers, qui doit décider de leur sort judiciaire ce jeudi 21 mars. Certains aspects de l'affaire semblent défier l'entendement.

"It’s dizzying. We are facing an extraordinary situation from every point of view. The day after the arrest at his home of Gilles d'Ettore, mayor of Agde and president of the Hérault Méditerranée agglomeration, placed in police custody on the order of an investigating judge from Béziers, the greatest mystery hangs over the facts that justice seems to have to reproach the elected official, whose police custody was extended this Wednesday March 20 until Thursday.

A thorough search of the town hall

Aged 55, mayor for 23 years, Gilles d'Ettore was arrested Tuesday morning at his home by police officers from Agde and the financial crime brigade of the P.J.&nbsp ;from Hérault, as well as an Agathoise "from her entourage, working as a clairvoyant and medium", according to the press release published by the Béziers public prosecutor's office, confirming information from Midi Libre.

An extensive search was also carried out simultaneously by around ten investigators at the Agde town hall, and several municipal executives were questioned, in open hearing, in Agde and Béziers. The public prosecutor, Raphaël Balland, refused to give more details, "as long as the police custody and possible presentations before the investigating magistrate are not over. 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."

Both people remain presumed innocent

The magistrate also recalled that’"en in any event, both people in police custody benefit from the presumption of innocence."

According to our information, the investigation concerns suspicions of economic and financial offenses, with around ten different qualifications, including "criminal association, embezzlement of public funds, illegal taking of interest and concealment. The judge and the police are keen to clarify the strange relationship between this clairvoyant and the elected official, who had been in frequent telephone contact for a long time.< /p>

Incessant phone calls to town hall

"She called at any time, he picked up and listened to her" indicates a witness working in town hall& nbsp; where the phone calls from this forty-year-old mother disturbed some.

But the affair takes on an irrational dimension, since it seems that the clairvoyant medium "disguised his voice to pass himself off as a supernatural entity, and that the mayor was obeying instructions from beyond" specifies a good source at Midi Libre. "Was he framed ? How did he fall for it ?"

A wedding with dozens of guests

The judge seeks to understand what role the chosen one could have played in a certain number of episodes in the life of the clairvoyant, including her recent marriage, with dozens of ;rsquo;guests, whose bill she would not have paid. The sums involved would amount to "several tens of thousands of euros" and investigators are working to determine whether the expenses were carried out privately by the mayor or with public money.

Both should be referred this Thursday to the Béziers judicial court, with a view to possible indictment, depending on the results of the investigations.

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