Var. The LR mayor of La Seyne-sur-Mer sentenced for obtaining a building permit for her house
Nathalie Bicais was sentenced on Friday for illegal taking of interest and is subject to a penalty of ineligibility and will therefore be removed from office very soon.
Nathalie Bicais, in April 2023, in La Seyne-sur-Mer. Photo archives Sipa/Alain Robert
Ineligibility, the theme of 2025? Accused of having failed in her duty of "probity, an essential quality for an elected official," Nathalie Bicais, LR mayor of La Seyne-sur-Mer, the second largest city in the Var, was sentenced for illegal taking of interest on Friday, with an immediate five-year ineligibility sentence, a few weeks after that pronounced against Marine Le Pen .
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The court accuses him in particular of obtaining a building permit in 2021 for his personal home, with the signature of his director general of services at the time, Laurent Régné, who was himself sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence.
Ineligible with provisional executionAn 18-month suspended prison sentence, with a five-year ineligibility period with provisional execution, a two-year ban on holding any public office and a fine of 20,000 euros was handed down by the president of the Toulon Criminal Court, who regretted the absence of the elected official when the judgment was read out.
Nathalie Bicais, elected in 2020 in this town bordering Toulon, should therefore be removed from her mandates very soon by the prefect of Var, the penalty of ineligibility applying immediately, although she is appealing her conviction as announced by her lawyer, Mr. Gilles Gauer.
The mayor could run again in the 2026 municipal elections if the courts manage to rule on her appeal very quickly and if the appeal court delivers a decision different from that of the first instance.
Hiring a relative for moneyNathalie Bicais was also prosecuted for hiring one of her close associates, Christophe Riqueau, as chief of staff, without a call for applications and while he had also lent her 100,000 euros to buy her seaside house. The latter was also
sentenced.
Nathalie Bicais is the second mayor of a large town in the Var region to be dismissed from her duties for reasons of probity, after Hubert Falco, former mayor of Toulon and former baron of local politics, a year ago .
Former LR member now rallied to Emmanuel Macron , Hubert Falco contested his immediate ineligibility before the Court of Cassation, which is due to deliver its decision on May 28.
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