Guadeloupe MP Max Mathiasin sentenced to 12 months in prison

12 months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros, the judgment is more lenient for Max Mathiasin than the requisitions which called for 18 months suspended prison sentence and a sentence of ineligibility with provisional execution. Deputy Liot from the third constituency of Guadeloupe, aged 68, was on trial for “breach of trust, subtraction, misappropriation or destruction of property from a public deposit” while he was director of the Pointe-à-Pitre School Fund. He was not present in court for the deliberations.

The facts concern the use of a fuel card and the sale of two vehicles by the Caisse des écoles, between August 12, 2014 and September 3, 2014, when Mr. Mathiasin headed the structure, before being elected deputy in 2017. The two vehicles were in fact leased and did not belong to the Caisse des écoles, but to the company Bred Cofilease, whose constitution as a civil party was withheld, just like that of the school fund. Bred mentions a little more than 7,000 euros in damage. The fuel card would have been used for a little over 6,000 euros.

Two other men, the former vice-president of the board of directors of the Caisse des écoles and a former municipal agent, were also tried in this case but were acquitted by the court. The public prosecutor had requested a 12-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros against the former vice-president of the board of directors of the Caisse des écoles, and a six-month suspended sentence and a fine of 5,000 euros. fine against the former municipal agent.

In the other part of the Caisse des Écoles de Pointe-à-Pitre case, the 2 agents are found guilty. Fabrice Bureau is sentenced to 18 months in prison, including 10 months suspended probation and 5 years of ineligibility, Anita Plocoste receives 6 months suspended.