Stéphane Haussoulier will be determined on his fate this Tuesday morning : the Beauvais criminal court renders its decision this Tuesday at 8:30 a.m., after a trial on October 1. The president of the Somme departmental council was tried for breach of trust, fraud and money laundering between 2016 and 2023 as part of his various mandates in the Department, as mayor of Saint-Valery, president of the Baie de Somme Mixed Union and secretary of the Regional Federation of Public Works. During the Jeanne Daucé trial, Stéphane Haussoulier pleaded error… without really convincing the prosecution.
Damage of nearly 370,000 euros over seven years
Stéphane Haussoulier had in fact asked, over this period of seven years, the reimbursement in double or even triple of his expense reports, on 173 occasions : “Negligence over a multitude of meals“, conceded the president of the Department of the Somme,
very emotional at the helm.
He was then justified by a daily newspaper devoted 100% to his mandates, with no room for a private life. The Beauvais public prosecutor's office pointed out “fraudulent maneuvers enabled by a lack of communication between the different structures” where Stéphane Haussoulier was an employee or elected official. Added to this are cash withdrawn from the bank account of the Regional Building Federation : amounts spent in restaurants, trips, cabarets with employers who are members of the Federation. In total, the damage amounts to nearly 370,000 euros over seven years.
“'It's an unlimited use of public money for anything and everything“, had denounced the Beauvais public prosecutor's office. The attorney general demands against Stéphane Haussoulier two years suspended prison sentence, three years of ineligibility and a fine of 60,000 euros. The decision will therefore be rendered this Tuesday morning, a month and a half after the hearing.
