Patrick Balkany again incarcerated after revocation of his placement under electronic bracelet

The former Mayor of Levalois-Perret had already been imprisoned between September 2019 and February 2020, after being sentenced with his wife for tax evasion, then for aggravated whitening. But he had been released for health reasons. Isabelle Balkany, currently hospitalized, will be summoned later by the floor.

Le Monde

It was an expected decision, after the dismissal of the Balkany Electronic Bracelet placement by justice, Thursday. The former Mayor of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), Patrick Balkany will again be incarcerated from Monday to Fleury Prison, announced the Evreux Prosecare.

m. Balkany “will obviously have the opportunity to see the medical service,” said the magistrate, stressing that “his state of health is taken into account”.

The former ingredient of the Republicans had already been imprisoned between September 2019 and February 2020, after being sentenced with his wife for tax evasion, then for aggravated whitening. But he had been released for reasons of health and assigned at residence under electronic supervision.

Isabelle Balkany, whose placement under electronic bracelet has also been revoked, has not been convened. According to her husband, she has made a new suicide attempt on Thursday after the announcement of justice and was hospitalized in Evreux.

Absence of respect for “constraints” of home detention

Arm of honor, About “Veems” or “Outer”, 5.3 million euros due to the taxau … The Court of Appeal of Rouen had detailed Thursday in a judgment the reasons that pushed him to revoke The placement under the electronic bracelet of the Balkany husbands.

The Balkany husbands have “never accepted the constraints inherent to home detention under electronic supervision”, estimates the Court, which reports their “attitude and abuse vehement or ironic, sometimes outstanding or outrageous” with respect to the Penitentiary administration staff or sentence judge. According to the Penitentiary Insertion and Probation Service (SPIP), M Me Balkany has regularly had an “opposing, condescending, or outrageous attitude”. Asked about four alarms of his electronic bracelet, the latter thus evoked “car problems” or “the need to shop”. The former Vice-President of the Hauts-de-Seine General Council justifies seven other alarms by “Hydrotherapies sessions forcing him to immerse the electronic bracelet in his bath”.

Especially, the Rouen Court of Appeal recalls that the Balkany husbands did not comply with their main obligation: “pay the sums due to public finances, and it despite” a very important tax debt “. The former Mayor (LR) of Levallois-Perret, 73, and his wife owe 5.3 million euros to the tax authorities, besides a sum of 766 759 euros specific to M me Balkany. However, they have “very comfortable incomes (more than 12,000 euros per month)” and have “could have the choice to reduce their current lifestyle (…) to settle the sums due”, insists the Court, which lists Their residence of 500 m² in Giverny, a “pied-à-terre” in Levallois and “a full-time home employee”.

/Media reports.