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It is there, according to the deputy mayor of Drancy, that he is facing off against the “Thomassin clan”, as well as the Chibane.
In the 2008 municipal elections, Gilbert Roger, PS mayor of Bondy, “eager to renew the political class of Seine-Saint-Denis”, convinced Sylvine Thomassin to leave Drancy to join him. Elected with him, she becomes his first assistant. Before, having become a senator, he left his chair in 2011.
There, says Lagarde, she would have set up a “black cabinet”, responsible for satisfying “revenge”.
“From the town hall of Bondy, they beat us, tried to bring us down, by all means, in particular by shooting our electoral campaigns, or by launching rumors”, affirms the deputy. For whom the thirty lawsuits brought by Hacène Chibane since 2014 against his action in Drancy receives “legal and logistical support” from Sylvine Thomassin.
In this “dark cabinet”, we would also find Fouad Ben Ahmed, a collaborator at Bondy, and Ugo Portier-Thomassin. The latter entered the scene in 2010, in Drancy.
The Thomassin son engages against Lagarde in Drancy
“My son, insubordinate to France, abhorred Mr. Lagarde’s UDI system,” his mother explains. He investigated the methods in place at the town hall and filed several complaints. This is not a conspiracy: it is politics in the noble sense! “
In October 2010, while Jean-Christophe Lagarde was presented as “ministerable” in the government of Nicolas Sarkozy in search of new centrist heads, Ugo Portier-Thomassin filed two complaints for “embezzlement of public funds” and “complicity in illegal taking of ‘interests’. A story, in particular, of a giant associative barbecue paid, according to the complainant, with funds from the city. If the abuse of social good was recognized, Lagarde saved himself a conviction by reimbursing the municipality. However, he was released in other proceedings.
“He is angry with the Thomassin son because he prevented him from entering the government, believes Fouad Ben Ahmed. It fed his hatred of the mother! “
From Drancy to Bondy via Bobigny
Since then, Ugo Portier-Thomassin has settled in Bobigny, where he militates for rebellious France. “He was a legislative candidate in 2017 in the fifth constituency (Bondy, Drancy, Bobigny) for LFI, just like… Malika Chibane for LREM, remembers a local observer. These two, they seemed to get along very well! “
It is also about Bobigny, a city held until 2020 by an IDU, Stéphane de Paoli, that the tensions between Sylvine Thomassin and Jean-Christophe Lagarde reach their apotheosis.
Last February, Eve Szeftel, journalist for AFP, published the book “The Mayor and the barbarians”. She tells how the UDI – whose president is still Jean-Christophe Lagarde – would have relied on unsavory networks to conquer Bobigny in the last municipal elections. “Not a word of truth,” according to Lagarde, who says she has filed seven complaints against the book, the author having so far not heard of.
Lagarde denounces the “Thomassin mafia”
Above all, Lagarde points to those who are “behind this fire”: the “Thomassin mafia”. “In the acknowledgments of this book, the author cites Ugo Portier-Thomassin as whistleblower and also thanks Fouad Ben Ahmed, ton Lagarde. Thomassin’s son and his former cabinet clerk! Isn’t that sufficient proof of the existence of an entire black cabinet dedicated to harming me? “
For the former mayor of Bondy, the hypothesis of this “black cabinet” is a “joke”. “I have the feeling that we lend to others methods that we practice ourselves”, squeaks the chosen one. “Until the end of June, I had a town of 50,000 inhabitants to manage! I don’t have time to worry about Mr. Lagarde! “
For his part, Christian Bartholmé, ex-collaborator of Lagarde’s cabinet, UDI candidate defeated in Bobigny, recalls… the legal agenda of the mother and son Thomassins. “In a recent press article, we learn that they are at the heart of an investigation for embezzlement of public funds and illegal taking of interest”, he indicates, with reference to the preliminary investigation opened by the prosecution. de Bobigny, on suspicion of a fictitious job obtained by Ugo Portier-Thomassin thanks to his mother’s interpersonal skills.
Thomassin has not said his last word
“If there is enmity between Mr. Lagarde and Ms. Thomassin, it is perhaps because the former is sensitive to people who pass themselves off as white knights but who are in reality far from it”, squeals the one who is now elected in opposition to Bobigny.
Where will this war lead? “I filed an appeal for annulment against the ballot in Bondy, I sincerely believe that it will be canceled,” recalls Sylvine Thomassin, who says she was the victim of violent intrusions in a meeting, “on the part of people living in Bobigny ”, seeing there“ a UDI method ”.
“I did not write the last chapter of my political life,” she continues. To the chagrin, obviously, of his son, “weary of political violence in Seine-Saint-Denis”. He wonders: “Do I wish my mother to become mayor of Bondy again?” I’m not sure of it. “
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