Louis Aliot, sentenced to six months in prison and three years of ineligibility, keeps his chair of mayor of Perpignan – Liberation

The Paris court pronounced on Monday, March 21, a sentence of eighteen months in prison on Monday, March 21, including six months firm, directly arranged under electronic bracelet, and three years of ineligibility against Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan and vice-president of the RN.

The court did not pronounce an immediate application of the sentence of ineligibility against Louis Aliot, having regard to the relatively small amount of the embezzlement concerning him and the short duration of his contract. « It was necessary to take into account the proportionality of the damage of this measure, on an in progress mandate for a local elected official », in order to « Preserve the freedom of voters », said the court.

Sentenced Monday for the embezzlement of public funds to a heavy penalty of a fine accompanied by an ineligibility of three years but without provisional execution, he thus retains his current mandate at the town hall of Perpignan, the largest city administered by the RN in France (120,000 inhabitants). Among the defendants at the trial of fictitious parliamentary assistants of the RN, the former European deputy was, as a local elected official, the most exposed to such a sanction. He also remains first vice-president of the far-right party.

Anticipating his condemnation, Louis Aliot hastened, as the deliberation approaches, to command a satisfaction survey at an institute and to share the results – necessarily positive – joyfully relayed by Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. Thus, Aliot can assert in the press that he is « plebiscite » by its voters. Imagining that the judges would have applied for him a less heavy condemnation than that required against him by the prosecution in the fall, and thinking of being able to represent himself in 2026, Aliot had appointed a few days ago The person who could have succeeded him in his councilor chair. The happy elected official would have called Patricia Fourquet, one of her assistants, a total unknown, chosen for her lack of ambition.

Discount for his person a modest penalty In this file of fictitious assistants was very ambitious: Aliot, ex-European deputy, was prosecuted for the fictitious employment of one of his former « collaborators », a certain Laurent Salles, paid for months by Brussels while he actually officiated to the national leadership to the major demonstrations of the National Front. Until trial, which was held in the fall Before the 11th Chamber of the Paris Criminal Court, Aliot had always refused to respond to justice. Being satisfied with the little courageous « I refuse to answer », For the 80 questions posed to him by the judges during his hearing in October 2018. In fact, The explanations given by Aliot Once at the helm in 2024, did not come a while, he was unable to justify the ghostly employment of his former parliamentary assistant, with whom he exchanged only one SMS in eight months, not a phone call, over the entire duration of his contract. Aliot, a lawyer by profession, found nothing better than to argue that he had given to the type only one task: to sort his mail twice a day, which he has anyway, it seems, never done.

Aliot therefore lost his post as mayor, obtained in 2020, leaving behind a mixed assessment. Two years after his election,, the first Vice-President of the RN had not done much better than its predecessors, exploding the payroll of the city, increasing wages, in particular its own, inflating communication expenses at levels never reached, recruiting some friends, or friends of friends … His town hall has since become a basket of unnamed crabs, with deleterious atmosphere, threats and other kindness. In March, one of his elected officials, Soraya Laugaro, town planning assistant, filed a complaint for harassment after finding a written inscription in large letters on the wall of his office: « Dirty Arab. »