New legal battle between this mayor of Essonne and his left-wing opponent

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The administrative court of Versailles rejected the appeal of an elected official from the opposition of Juvisy-sur-Orge (Essonne) who opposed the pooling of municipal police forces with the neighboring town of Savigny-sur-Orge.

A confusion of dates

As a reminder, on June 30, 2022, the mayor (various right) of Juvisy-sur-Orge Lamia Bensarsa-Reda signed the “multi-communal agreement for the pooling of municipal police officers and missions” with her counterpart from Savigny- sur-Barley Alexis Teillet (LR). Alain Villemeur – who led the “ecological and united Juvisy” list during the municipal elections of June 2020 and who came in second position at the end of the vote – then seized the administrative court of Versailles for obtain cancellation of this decision.

According to him, the agreement would in fact have been signed by the mayor “on June 7, 2022”: “photographs” which had been “posted on social networks and in the municipality's newsletter” were proof of this, according to him. him. Problem: on that date, the mayor had not “the municipal council house” to sign this “multi-municipal agreement”, which did not take place until June 29, 2022. “The signature of June 7, 2022 was hidden from the municipal council of June 29, 2022”, therefore deduced Alain Villemeur.

A communication action

But “if the photographs […] posted on social networks and in the municipality's newsletter may have misled the public, they are not sufficient to materialize the existence of a legal act”, thinks the administrative court of Versailles in a judgment dated of September 16, 2024 which has just been made public. “They only constitute a communication action aimed at informing citizens of the imminent signing of this agreement, which finally took place on June 30, 2022.

“No agreement having been signed on June 7, 2022 between the municipalities […]the conclusions for the purpose of annulment of the agreement must be considered as being directed against a non-existent act” the judges deduce. “They can only be rejected as inadmissible “. Their author was even ordered to pay €900 in legal costs to the town hall.

As a reminder, Alain Villemeur and Lamia Bensarda-Reda, wife of the former mayor and current deputy Robin Reda, announced in 2020 that they had filed a complaint against each other for “defamation”after the first said he feared “a confusion of genres” since the second had succeeded her husband as town hall.

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