“Jewish confession”, “deaf” … Éric Ciotti in the viewfinder of justice for suspicions of filing

POLITICS – Mailing -list, yes, and with a level of details far too sharp. Searches were carried out Tuesday August 12 in Nice as part of an investigation open into suspicions of filing of people by the teams of Eric Ciotti, established without their consent, said the prosecution, confirming information from Libération et Nice-Matin.

A preliminary investigation was opened by the Nice prosecutor’s office last May of the chief of“Registration or conservation of sensitive personal data without the consent of interested parties”told AFP the public prosecutor of Nice, Damien Martinelli. According to Libérationthis investigation follows the report in the spring of a “Anonymous whistleblower” Informing of the existence of files set up by the teams of the local deputy and president of the UDR Éric Ciotti.

According to Libération, These Excel files would concern several hundred Niçois presented as “Influential”whether they are associative or traders responsible for example, some of the names being followed by the confession of interested parties (“Jewish confession”, “Christian confession”), their origins (“Armenian community”, “Corsica”), disability (” deaf “, “Non -seeing”) or the mention “Land owner”.

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Confirming information from Nice-Matinthe magistrate indicates that the judicial police “Proceeded this (Tuesday) morning to various searches in particular with a view to entering computer data”. However, he did not confirm that these searches aimed, as Nice-Matin indicates, the headquarters of the Departmental Council, of which Éric Ciotti was the president from 2008 to 2017 and whose finance committee he still chaired.

Still according to Libérationthe National Commission for Data Protection has confirmed a complaint with regard to these filing processes without consent.

This investigation comes as Eric Ciotti could announce at the end of August at the end of August during his political school year, his candidacy for the town hall of Nice against the outgoing mayor Christian Estrosi (Horizons), who has already announced. According to Libération, Mentions “Estrosi?” »» Also appear in problematic files, as if to question a link with the mayor in place. Neither Éric Ciotti nor his entourage followed up on AFP requests about the constitution of these files. The processing of personal data obtained without consent is punishable by 5 years’ imprisonment and a fine which can vary between 300,000 and 1.5 million euros.