Hadrien Clouet is well acquainted with the latest news on Olivier Dussopt. The rebel deputy did not escape the fact that the Minister of Labor is suspected of “favouritism” by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), as revealed by Mediapart, for a case that dates back to 2009 on the award of a public contract in Saur. a group specialized in water treatment. The former socialist was then a deputy and mayor of Annonay, in the Ardèche.
This news comes at a bad time for Olivier Dussopt, on the front lines of pension reform. Hadrien Clouet, one of the leaders of La France insoumise (LFI) on this text, took the ball on the first day of the debates.
First, he set out to criticize the bill in terms of its substance, evoking “the long whining” of the presidential field, when the left “proposed making the super-rich or Bernard Arnault contribute.”
“I hope it’s not water from the Saur”
Then the sociologist, a specialist in employment and work, paused in his speech. It’s time for a drink to better address Olivier Dussopt.
“I hope it is not water from the Saur, but I still allow it,” he slipped, causing some laughter in the chamber.
Then he returned to the pension reform, listing “those who are going to pay”, according to him, with the bill -such as “women”, “mothers”, or “young people”- but above all “those who will not contribute “, such as “large companies that offer lithographs”. A new pike to the Minister of Labor.
The PNF had opened a preliminary investigation against the latter for “illegal interest taking” and “corruption” in 2020. In question: two lithographs by the painter Gérard Garouste offered to Olivier Dussopt in 2017 by Saur when Annonay and the company were negotiating a partnership. industrial.
“There is little doubt that there is an agreement”
“At the end of this investigative work, the prosecution had grouped the facts into five points and I note that the explanations given with my lawyer convinced the prosecution of my good faith since in four of these five points the prosecution decided that it was necessary to classify them , without “prosecution for corruption, usurpation or enrichment,” Olivier Dussopt explained this Friday.
Suspicions of “favouritism” remain. According to Mediapart, the search carried out at the minister’s premises by financial investigators from Oclciff (Central Office for the Fight against Financial and Fiscal Crimes) revealed “exchanges between Olivier Dussopt and (the Saur) that seemed to leave little doubt about the existence of a arrangement around a public market from 2009-2010”, when he was lieutenant and socialist mayor of this Ardèche commune.
Source: BFM TV
