Marseille: an outgoing LRM deputy accused of harassment and industrial costs

Claire Pitollat, reinvested in the 2nd district of Bouches-du-Rhône, would have billed personal expenses with the National Assembly.

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This is a new storm that falls into a candidate invested by together for the next legislative elections. After the withdrawal of the former adviser of Emmanuel Macron Jérôme Peyrat, in the 4 e district of Dordogne, condemned for domestic violence against his ex-partner. After the controversy striking the outgoing deputy of Seine-Maritime, Sira Sylla, accused of harassment by several of her parliamentary assistants, it is the turn of Claire Pitollat, outgoing deputy of the 2 e district of the mouths -Du-Rhône, for being criticized for a series of shortcomings as part of his ending mandate.

In a long investigation, the Marsactu.fr information site unveils, Thursday, May 19, abuses and slippages of the parliamentarian La République en Marche (LRM), elected in 2017 to everyone’s surprise in a constituency held since Two mandates by one of the Les Républicains Local pillars (LR), Dominique Tian, ​​an elected Marseille himself condemned in 2019 for “money laundering”. If M ^{Me Pitollat, 42, refutes all the facts attributed to her, she is accused by a dozen concordant testimonies of her ex-collaborators, harassment and brutal management. But also to have invoiced personal expenses in the National Assembly, through its advance of mandate costs (AFM).}

After having peeled her 2018 accounts, the ethical of the Assembly has already sanctioned the young MP by requiring him to reimburse some of her costs. In total, 1,494 euros were thus claimed on its first year of mandate, in particular concerning make -up, perfumery or aesthetic care costs. Taxi trips “in the direction and provenance of a vacation spot” for a sum of 9,000 euros were also noted by control. But without request for reimbursement.

These reminders were gathered in a letter addressed to Claire Pitollat, May 11, 2020. The deputy is noted that she can only use the 5,373 euros monthly of her AFM only in a very precise. Despite this, Marsactu.fr’s investigation ensures that the induced expenses would have continued in the following years, pointing in particular clothing and pharmacy costs “without adequate proof”. H2>

Claire Pitollat, engineer at EDF before his election, is also attacked for his management of his parliamentary collaborators. According to statements from the National Assembly, she used no less than nineteen in five years. “We had noted this turnover” notes, on this subject, the LRM referent of Bouches-du-Rhône Bertrand Mas-Fraissinet, who ensures “not having had other dysfunctions during the mandate”.

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