Accused by an environmental activist of having fraudulently declared that she lived in Paris in order to be able to run for office, Sandrine Rousseau was interviewed on January 10 as part of the investigation.
It was during a free hearing, organized on January 10, that the environmentalist deputy of Paris, Sandrine Rousseau, was heard as a suspect in the context of the investigation which concerns suspicions of fraudulent registration of the ‘elected to the electoral lists of the capital, report BFMTV And West Francewhich echo the AFP.
At the origin of this investigation, a complaint filed in June 2023 by environmental activist Claire Monod, whose candidacy for 2022 legislative elections had been rejected in favor of that of Sandrine Rousseau. She accuses the MP of having provided a false housing certificate in order to be able to participate in the vote. And for good reason, according to the investigative magazine Further investigation from France 2, Sandrine Rousseau: in green and against everyone!released in April 2023, the ecologist would have provided the town hall of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, only three days before the closing of registrations for the 2022 legislative elections, with the housing insurance certificate supposed to prove that she lived in Paris, without having lived there. In her complaint, Claire Monod assures that it was an acquaintance of Sandrine Rousseau who produced the famous document.
An accusation that the main person concerned formally rejects. “There was a subletting project because it was a furnished apartment”, then “finally, I moved into an unfurnished apartment because subletting was not possible”, explained Sandrine Rousseau in the France 2 program, admitting to having “banked on this subletting” because the closing of the electoral lists was coming. However, the elected official ended up signing the lease for another studio located in the district a few weeks later.
Today suspected of “undue registration on an electoral list by fraudulent declaration”, Sandrine Rousseau faces up to one year of imprisonment. The prosecution, however, indicates that the EELV MP “produced insurance certificates and electricity bills for successive housing units, loaned then acquired, in the 13th arrondissement”. Enough to ward off suspicion? To be continued…