Taxi case of Agnès Saal: Fleur Pellerin went to court – Les Echos

+ VIDEO Minister of Culture sent the court the file on taxi fares from the former director of the National Audiovisual Institute, Agnès Saal, she said on Tuesday in an interview with “Parisian”.

Fleur Pellerin well have reinstated Agnès Saal at the Ministry of Culture after the scandal notes taxis cost him his position as head of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), the Minister of Culture and the digital economy has not forgotten that story. In an interview with “Parisian” released this Tuesday, June 2, she announced that she referred the case to justice.

“ I decided to go to court. Indeed, I seized this morning (Monday morning ndrl) the prosecutor of Créteil on the basis of Article 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, under which any public official having knowledge of a crime is the bring to justice , “said the minister. “ Our letter of transmittal has elements of travel expenses . “

After the complaint Anticor

A decision which came three days after the announcement by the association Anticor the filing of complaints against taxi expenses of the former CEO of INA and contracts by Mathieu Gallet, current boss of Radio France, at the time when he chaired the Institute.

Regretting that the Culture Minister has not taken legal action, while Agnes Saal was reinstated in the ministry – which earned him many critics (see video below ) – Anticor filed a complaint against X Creteil prosecutor for “favoritism” to the facts about Mathieu Gallet and “embezzlement” regarding Ms. Saal. “ Institutions It shows that he has a certain acceptance for that financial mismanagement is tolerable. It makes a complaint to alert the public services of their responsibility “, had said Friday Jerome Karsenti, the ‘Anticor lawyer.

taxi costs

Appointed to head the INA in 2014 to succeed Mathieu Gallet party at Radio France, Agnès Saal, which benefited from a company car and driver, had to resign in late April after being pinned for spending more € 40,000 taxis in ten months, including 6,700 euros by his son who had his reservation code at the G7 company. His lawyers argue in particular that it repaid 15,940 euros for travel expenses, including 6,700 euros in “expenses attributable to his son” and 5,840 euros “private nature of displacement.”