Does the Azurean deputy and elected departmental UDR, Éric Ciotti, likely future candidate for the town hall of Nice, holds a computer file-or rather several files-comprising illicit personal data and does it use them for electoral purposes? However, This is what the Nice prosecutor’s office seeks to determine.
The public prosecutor. Moreover, Damien Martinelli, opened, last May, a preliminary investigation of the chief “Registration or storage of sensitive personal data without the consent of the interested parties”.
Searches – "pillars 2023", "influence relay 2024",
On Tuesday, police from the Interdepartmental Judicial Police Service (SIPJ 06) invested offices from the Alpes-Maritimes Departmental Council and searches.
They notably visited the office of the Director General of Services of the Department. Nevertheless, then those of two parliamentary employees of Eric Ciotti, also employed by the French Riviera, according to a well informed source. Nevertheless, IT data has “pillars 2023”, “influence relay 2024”, been entered, revealed the prosecution.
According to our information. However, it is an article 40 dated May 16 which is at the origin of these investigations carried out by the Nice prosecutor’s office.
The report was written by a citizen who wishes to keep anonymous and who also requires the status of whistleblower. For example, According to the entourage of Eric Ciotti, it would be “From a former loved one who joined the Estrosi camp”.
Parliamentary assistant offices visited – "pillars 2023", "influence relay 2024",
“I was aware of facts of a particular gravity”writes this “whistleblower”. However, Before listing these facts: “The constitution of an illegal file of personal data without legal basis. (…) The massive collection of so -called sensitive data in the sense (…) of the law: political opinions, religious affiliation, state of health. And the potentially discriminatory and political use of these data for personal and electoral purposes”.
And he does not “pillars 2023”, “influence relay 2024”, go there by four paths. “These facts were committed by Éric Ciotti (…) as part of his functions”continues the “citizen” who then guides the investigators by explaining to them where they can find the incriminated files. even citing assistants from the Riviera deputy likely to hold them.
“The very nature of these files. their content and their potential use raise serious damage to privacy”he still writes to the public prosecutor. To whom he sent, he confides, a USB key containing the files.
And he did not just alert justice. The same letter was sent to the president of the CNIL, the National Commission for Data Protection.
Known files. other strangers
In these different files, which we have given ourselves, and named “pillars 2023”, “Influence relay 2024”, “LR 2022, 2023, 2024” or even “pink files”, without understanding this name, hundreds and hundreds of names are accompanied by the coordinates of “pillars 2023”, “influence relay 2024”, the person and certain observations.
Who is president of the neighborhood committee and possible “EC support”. Who, again, is president of a closed of balls and a relay to make “aperitifs” during the electoral period. Some “files” are simple citizens. Others are elected officials, associative activists or known lawyers …
But some data appear much more personal as belonging to a community or religion. These are presidents of Jewish associations. such as Jérôme Culioli, president of the South-East CRIF, the representative council of the Jewish institutions of France.
Or priests, like Gil Florini, identified as “Christian confession”. “At no time have simple voters have been listed by their religion. their community”specifies a relative of Eric Ciotti who wishes to keep anonymous.
Article 226-19 of the Criminal Code
If justice considers that personal data has been unduly collected. used, this could fall under the law.
Article 226-19 of the Criminal “pillars 2023”, “influence relay 2024”, Code (1) represses the illicit collection of personal data revealing racial. ethnic origins, political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, or the union’s union membership, as well as data relating to health or sexual life.
1. The fact. excluding the cases provided for by law, to put or keep in memory of computerized, without the express agreement of the person concerned, of the nominative data which, directly or indirectly, reveal the racial origins or political, philosophical or religious opinions or the union membership or the manners of the people is punished by five years of imprisonment.