Sentenced to a suspended disqualification sentence and a fine, the president of the metropolitan area of Tours announced that he will not appeal his conviction and will serve his sentence to the end.
The president of the Tours Metropolitan Area and the Joulé-lès-Tours chamber, in France, was sentenced to a suspended ineligibility penalty and to pay a fine of 12,000 euros, after describing a mayor of Portuguese descent as “dirty Portuguese.” Portuguese. ”, Cédric de Oliveira.
The case occurred a year ago, in April 2023, when Fredéric Augis verbally attacked his colleague Cédric de Oliveira, vice president of the metropolitan area and president of the Fondettes chamber. The conservative reportedly said, after discussing a budget: “You’re just a vice president,” but he didn’t stop there: “You are nothing more than a ‘sale portugal’ [um português sujo]” .
The alleged events were described in a letter addressed to Augis by the vice president, also a rightist, in which he stated that he was “deeply shocked” by the “true brutality” of the criticism he received, according to local newspapers. .
The origin of the discussion was the refusal of the Portuguese descendant to vote with the right-wing majority in the metropolitan area of Tours.
At the time, to journalists, the French mayor simply said that it had been “a private discussion” and that he would not fuel the controversy again, but according to the local newspaper France blue, there will have been an apology. In a letter sent to the mayor of Portuguese descent, Augis said: “Sometimes I can have harsh words that go beyond my thoughts.” And he promised not to repeat the same type of comments in the future.
Despite the apology, the case went to court. And now, in April, Fredéric Augis is sentenced to a Suspended sentence and payment of a fine of 12,000 euros, of which 4,000 are suspended.. President Joulé-lès-Tours has already said that he has no intention of appealing the court’s decision and that he will carry out his office until the end.
This conviction comes three years after the then president of the Tours metropolitan area, Wilfried Schwartz, resigned for physically attacking his former chief of staff.
Source: Observadora
