Led by socialist Michaël Delafosse since 2020, Montpellier town hall is at the heart of two preliminary investigations for alleged embezzlement of public funds and concealment. This concerns in particular 297 municipal agents without assignment and the remuneration of his former chief of staff. Searches, confirmed in “Marianne”, are in progress.
According to information from Free Midday, supplemented by Marianne, searches are underway at the town hall of Montpellier, stronghold of the socialist Michaël Delafosse since his election in 2020. Carried out by the financial brigade of the city's judicial police, they are carried out as part of two separate cases, both based on suspicion of embezzlement of public funds and concealment of this crime, as revealed Marianne.
The first case concerns nearly 300 doubtful jobs, identified by the Regional Chamber of Accounts (CRC) of Occitanie during its report dedicated to the management of human resources in the city, and published in June 2023. Analyzing the period between 2015 and 2021, the CRC notably identified « 297 agents sans affectation » (out of a total of 3,710 agents in 2020), i.e. “8% of the full-time equivalent workforce, according to this first assessment” Who “generally receive both their gross salary and their compensation package”. Clearly, the sleuths of the Court of Auditors examined all the city's employment contracts over these five years and singled out 297 municipal employees whose mission they were unable to determine.
