Francis Szpiner, Rival de Rachida Dati at the town hall of Paris, targeted by a judicial information for « corruption » – Liberation
How not to think about the potential consequences on the battle that will open for the Paris town hall in 2026while Francis Szpiner had declared himself on March 12 in the Parisianto try to be invested candidate of the right and the center in place of the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati ? According to information of World And of Parisiansearches were carried out on Tuesday at the home of the famous lawyer Francis Szpiner. But also at the town hall of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, of which he was mayor from July 2020 to November 2023, before being appointed Senator Les Républicains de la Capitale.
These searches were carried out as part of an open judicial information for corruption, said the prosecution this Thursday, April 17. A preliminary investigation had been opened on October 18, 2024, then the investigations were entrusted to an investigating judge on April 7 for « Active and passive corruption »said the prosecution. « There is no indictment to date », added the prosecution.
According to the Worldthe judicial information relates to the conditions of allocation in 2023 of social housing in the 16th arrondissement to a 26 -year -old esthetician, who claims to have had sex with Francis Spziner, at the time when he was a councilor of the district town hall concerned. She would have been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office following the report of a magistrate seized in another case of domestic violence, between the same young woman and her husband, who did not concern the elected Parisian. It was during a hearing as part of this first investigation that the twenty -year -old would have mentioned the exchange of sexual favors with Francis Szpiner, three times, against the allocation of social housing, according to the copy of the interview that the Parisian.
Still according to the daily, the young woman would have contacted the mayor of the 16th in private message on Twitter (now X) on February 4, 2023 to require her help to find a new roof, after being forced to leave the expensive 16th home that she occupied with her husband, following the violence. After her appointment with the Parisian councilor, the young woman actually obtained social housing in the same arrondissement. Contacted by AFP, those around the tenor of the bar affirm « Do not be worried on the bottom of the file » but « Asks (one) political agenda » linked to the next municipal elections.
