The elected official of a town of Moselle who had been withdrawn from his duties after a fake renunciation letter in the City Council had been received, could reintegrate the municipal council, decided on Monday, May 19, the Strasbourg Administrative Court.
“A municipal councilor who denies being the author of a resignation has the right to challenge the decision of the mayor who took note,” said the judge in summary procedures, specifying that the resignation of an elected official is only effective with the condition “that emanates freely and unequivocal of the elected official in question.”
Therefore, the judge ordered the suspension of the execution of the decision by which the mayor had taken note of this resignation.
Julien Ruaro, a 39-year-old engineer, was presented in 2020 in the municipal elections in the only list in the operation of Coin-Lès-Cuvry, an 800 inhabitants town located about ten kilometers from Metz. It became the main voice of the opposition to the Municipal Council and denounced in 2021 the gendarmes of the facts of the illegal take of alleged interests aimed at the first attachment, a notary of profession, around a real estate project.
A long administrative battle
When the mayor, Anne-Marie Linden-Gueldon, received a letter in Julien Ruaro in January 2024, informing her of her resignation, she takes note without verifying the authenticity of this withdrawal. It is the beginning of a long administrative battle for the engineer, who denounces an identity theft.
At the May 13 hearing, the former chosen official asked the judge for his reinstatement to the Municipal Council, based on the graphological experience that shows that the renunciation letter was falsified. In the results of the analysis, consulted by AFP, the graphologist concluded that handwritten mentions “will be assigned by the hand of an unidentified third party.”
The defense lawyer, Jean Erkel, said that the expert report was on the contrary “ambiguous” and was a “concordance” of the letter with previous writings that demonstrate according to him that there are many authors themselves.
The National Local Opposition Association officials (AELO), which presented arguments in favor of Julien Ruaro to the Court, had denounced “a plot destined to exclude him from the municipal council.”
Source: BFM TV
