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Isabelle Balkany is not happy and she makes it known.  On Facebook, the first deputy mayor of Levallois-Perret, who is none other than her husband, MP Patrick Balkany, castigated the attitude of former Sarkozyists Roselyne Bachelot, Rama Yade, Fadela Amara and Chantal Jouanno who, according to her, favors machismo in politics.  While the latter have detached themselves from the political ideals of Nicolas Sarkozy and the UMP - Fadela Amara, ex-Secretary of State for Nicolas Sarkozy's City Policy, had announced during the presidential campaign that she would vote for François Holland , Roselyne Bachelot declared at the beginning of the week that she would not vote Nicolas Sarkozy in 2017 if he stood again, Rama Yade regretted in "Paris-Match" the very right line taken by the UMP, and Chantal Jouanno left the UMP for the UDI of Jean-Louis Borloo - Isabelle Balkany accuses them of "spitting in the soup". "These caricatural denials give grain to grind to the ma...

This Wednesday, Isabelle Balkany, first deputy of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) and wife of the mayor of the city, was placed in police custody in the premises of the central direction of the judicial police (DCPJ) in Nanterre . According to M6 , she would be questioned as part of a judicial investigation of a financial nature relating to the heritage of her couple. “A suspicious movement of money arriving on the Balkany account would have been observed by the investigators”, specifies the chain. For the moment, neither the couple's lawyer nor Patrick Balkany have commented on this case.   In December 2013, the Balkany couple had been targeted by a financial investigation, following the revelations of Didier Schuller, a former relative.  At the time, a judicial investigation for laundering tax evasion had been opened and Patrick Balkany had been suspected of having concealed assets abroad from the tax authorities. The name of Patrick Balkany, re-elected mayor in the first ...

Justice has decided to revoke the placement under electronic bracelet of the Balkany spouses, paving the way for their incarceration. The Rouen Court of Appeal confirmed on Thursday the revocation of the Balkany spouses' placement under an electronic bracelet, paving the way for the imprisonment of the former mayor of the Republicans of Levallois-Perret and his wife convicted of tax evasion , a- we learned from the prosecution and lawyers.  The spouses had been sentenced on appeal to three years in prison for tax fraud in March 2020, then to, respectively, five and four years in detention for the former executive of the Ile-de-France right and his wife, for laundering of tax fraud .  They had then been dismissed from their elected offices in the city of Levallois-Perret and had both been placed under electronic bracelets.