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Vincent Guerrier
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Nov 12 2024 at 5:17 p.m
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The judgment in the GDE case will be rendered on January 29, 2025. In this case, Alain Lambert, former president of the Departmental Council of Orne, and Alain Pelleray, his chief of staff, appeared at the bar of the Paris Criminal Court in mid-October.
The two men are accused of having used their respective positions to encourage the installation of a waste landfill by the company Guy Dauphin Environment (GDE) to Nonant-le-Pinnear the prestigious Haras du Pin, at the end of the 2000s.
Volunteer driver
Contacted, Bertrand Maréchaux confirms that he has never exercised “any paid activity” in the horse world. He was able, on a voluntary basis, to drive several horses belonging to a breeder friend, near Sées. “After heading the National Agency for Secured Titles, I had another file that was even more complicated than GDE. The Ministry of the Interior asked me to tamper with a public contract*. Something I refused to do. So I was put in the closet. I had become a prefect in charge of mission… A funny title which meant that I had free time. So twice a week, I rode horses on a voluntary basis. It never made me a cent. »
* Affair of secure driving licenses, where Bertrand Maréchaux launched calls for tenders for a contract held by Atos and Safran, provoking the anger of the latter, as well as Manuel Valls, Minister of the Interior.
But in his pleading, Me Cyril Fergon, Alain Lambert's lawyer, charged the prefect of Orne at the time, Bertrand Maréchaux. The former senior official is described as an “atypical prefect”, “who will have benefited more than my client in this affair”, expressed the lawyer at the time.
A way of suggesting that the systematic opposition of Bertrand Maréchaux to the installation of GDE was perhaps not innocent, very close to the “Norman Versailles” as the Haras du Pin is described.
“Valiant in the stretchers”
The person concerned refutes these accusations. But with a certain sense of humor. In an image in which we see, in a field, four horses. Gaylord, an 8 year old mule, Jazz24 year old gelding, calypso, 23 year old gelding, and Loch Ness, 4 year old mule. They eat their pittance in a sot, at the edge of a meadow.
“Loyal friends and, in pairs, valiant in the stretchers… A somewhat uncertain basis for a breeding activity,” comments the former prefect. He swears that he never did business with the equestrian world (see box), after his duties at the Orne prefecture.
Also contacted to support his accusations, Me Cyril Fergon did not respond to our requests.
Heavy fines required
Monday October 21, the national financial prosecutor's office made scathing requisitions. The prosecutor, in fact, demanded a sentence of two years in prison and a fine of €100,000 against Alain Lambert and a sentence of twelve months in prison and a fine of €50,000 against Alain Pelleray, for passive influence peddling.
Severe requisitions, based, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, on “a solid case”.
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