The president of France Télévisions, Delphine Ernotte, the mayor Horizons of Nice Christian Estrosi and his wife, Laura Tenoudji-Estrosi, were placed this Monday June 30 in police custody in Marseille in the context of an investigation into the organization of events in Nice, said a source close to the file.
The three are among the ten people in total who were summoned this Monday as part of surveys, initially open to Nice and then transferred to the specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Marseille. At the heart of investigations: the organization in Nice in 2023 of the Junior Eurovision song competition, organized and broadcast by France Télévisions, and another event, Nice Climate Summit, organized in 2023 by the Economic Media The platformhad said to AFP last week, another close source confirming information from Mediapart. The president of the tribune Jean-Christophe Tortora, also managing director of CMA Média, was also summoned on Monday.
The surveys are notably open to “Missing of public funds”, “illegal taking of interests” or “False in public writing”, According to a source close to the file and Mediapart. The information site ensures that they «vise[nt] directly” Estrosi spouses, “Which contest having committed any offense”. A first survey had been opened after a report of elected officials from Nice concerning the environment on the environment.
Former columnist in Télématin on France 2 and wife of Christian Estrosi since 2016, Laura Tenoudji-Estrosi had to animate two round tables during the Nice Climate Summit, subsidized by the City and the Metropolis and co-organized by the platform. Faced with the controversy, she had given up there, the city and the metropolis ensuring in a press release that she had to intervene at the conference “on a voluntary basis “ And collaborated with the economic media.
Regarding Junior Eurovision, the survey bears in particular, according to Mediapart, on “The choice to entrust Laura Tenoudji the co-animation of the opening ceremony of the event, even though the municipality led by her husband was very generous to welcome her, with a care of 605,000 euros”.
The Marseille prosecution replied that it “Do not intend to communicate at this stage of the procedure”. France Télévisions confirmed Friday in a press release “The summons of its president”, Delphine Ernotte-Cuni, “As well as employees of the group and a subsidiary to be heard as part of a judicial inquiry relating to the organization of events in the city of Nice”. The public television group “Will fully collaborate in this investigation [et] intends to reserve his explanations to the judicial authorities ”, had added France TV.
