DA reprieve but no ineligibility for Karl Olive. MP Renaissance was sentenced this Monday, November 18, to eight months in prison, suspended by the judicial court of Versailles (Yvelines). The elected official was prosecuted for illegal taking of interest when he was LR mayor of Poissy (Yvelines), between 2014 and 2020. “Having regard to the date of the facts and the textual basis retained for the prosecution, the court did not not pronounced a sentence of ineligibility,” specifies the court, cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Two other defendants, Boris Gros, the current director of youth and sports in Poissy, and his father Philippe Gros, former deputy director of town hall services, were also found guilty. They were sentenced to suspended prison sentences of six and four months respectively, as requested by the prosecution, as well as a fine of 3,000 euros each. Two men with whom the 55-year-old MP maintains friendships.
According to Agence France-Presse, the parliamentarian is accused of “having committed acts of illegal taking of interest by participating in the recruitment of the city sports director [Boris Gros] under conditions based on an arrangement allowing freedom from the rules of appointment of the civil service”. Justice also accuses the former councilor of having awarded Philippe Gros “official accommodation for which the fee was undervalued”, adds the same source.
Appeal of the decision
During the hearing on September 24, the prosecutor denounced “a form of nepotism on the part of Mr. Olive, condemned by the rules of the territorial civil service”, motivated by the “ties of friendship” maintained with his co-defendants. “I have always considered that regarding what was proposed by the financial department, the HR department or the legal department, there was no question” to ask, the person concerned had argued., who assured that he had simply “trusted” his team.
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In a press release, published at the end of the deliberations, Karl Olive reaffirms that these decisions were “voted on in the municipal council like thousands of others”. “Ten years of procedure for two decisions taken two months after my election as mayor in 2014 and concerning two agents. No personal enrichment, no embezzlement of public funds,” he said.
“This decision is a bad signal for the country's elected officials,” laments the former councilor, who recalls that “55% of mayors do not wish to run again at the end of their mandate in 2026.” “I am appealing this decision. It is a question of principle, even if no penalty of ineligibility or fine has been imposed,” he concludes.
