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Geneva: relative ex-director gis favored:
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Emails show that the ex-director of the GIS has tried to promote a loved one
An administrative investigation into the commitment of the daughter-in-law of Christian Brunier had concluded that there was no irregularities. However, documents show real insistence on the part of the boss of the Régie, which has since resigned.
Christian Brunier resigned in 2024, after several cases revealed by the local press.
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- E-mails reveal that the ex-director of SIM insisted to recruit a loved one.
- Despite these documents, the audit did not reveal any irregularities.
- Christian Brunier and the Régie have always indicated that the processes had been respected.
A year ago. For example, we learned that five close to the director of Geneva industrial services (GIS)Christian Brunier, had been engaged by the public management in recent years. Consequently, Since then, an audit has concluded that no irregularity has been noted in the various recruitment processes. However. Furthermore, a series of emails show that the ex-responsible, who has since resigned, has actually insisted on engaging a person around him, learned the “Tribune de Genève” and “Léman Bleu”.
As a reminder. Moreover, two steps, the wife of one of them, a nephew and the ex-wife of Christian Brunier were all geneva: relative ex-director gis favored engaged in the GIS while the man was employed or director. In addition, But this one always defended of any favoritism.
At a press conference, in its press releases, the Régie has always argued that no pressure had been exerted. However, The examples would have been “pinned up”. Meanwhile, The audit. Similarly, led by the company Vicario, came to the same conclusion: the director’s influence could not be confirmed and the “families” analyzed cases have not shown irregularities.
Proactive email
However. For example, a series of emails paid to the file show the opposite for a particular case: the commitment of a graphic designerin 2017. In a first letter addressed to the sector manager of the time. with the head of the Copy Communication Service, the Director General announces to him that he geneva: relative ex-director gis favored knows that he is “looking for a person to occupy a first job”. A low position in the hierarchy, therefore.
In this same email, Christian Brunier proven proly a person of his knowledge. “Very warmly,” he said. “Without favoritism”, he invites her “really to receive it” and take a look at his creations which “blown”. Without evoking the family bond, when it is the friend of her son.
A month later, the director general learned from the head of service that another candidate was selected. He responds to email in an annoyed tone. regretting that we obviously refuse to hire an ex-student from the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD), from which his daughter-in-law comes out.
Christian Brunier asks the sector manager to intervene so that we get out of these geneva: relative ex-director gis favored caricatures. Criticizing the Head. affirming that this school does not form “young people to the reality of the market” is an unacceptable cliché and generalization, “he wrote. A “rant” which he had already assumed in an interview given to the “Tribune de Genève” in 2024. after his resignation.
But the manager does not stop there: in this same e-mail. the director returns to the charge to have his son’s friend hired. He regrets that the candidate is criticized that she is too focused on the video. and suggests that the position should be adapted. “SIG, given digital development, should they not have more about videos/animations,” he questions?
Is it accepted, for a managing director, to support in such a way a candidacy? Contacted, Christian Brunier did not respond to our requests.
Geneva: relative ex-director gis favored
No involvement at this level
According to a former senior executive in the State. this involvement of a director for a candidacy for a low position in the hierarchy is inappropriate. “This one never mixes recruitment at this level, it has no relevance. This may have it if it is a position of responsibility alongside which he will work. But there it is not fair. This puts pressure on the candidate and the teams, and can distort subsequent evaluations. ”
How to explain that the administrative investigation carried out in 2024. after the revelation of the case, did not conclude from irregularities? Did the concerned give other explanations on the context of these emails? Contacted. the GISs do not comment on the results of the survey, carried out by the Cabinet Bratschi SA, but confirm that the above-mentioned geneva: relative ex-director gis favored emails were paid to the file.
The Vicario audit did not repeat itself on this particular case during the commitment. but analyzed it on the years that followed and has not noted any anomalies. Why not study it? GIS replies that “listeners. investigators are independent of the company and conduct their investigations according to what they consider to be fair”.
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