Overview
- The Vaucluse prefect formally removed Yann Bompard from office after a five‑year ineligibility ruling took immediate effect, with the first deputy now required to convene a council vote for a new mayor within 15 days.
- A Marseille court convicted Yann Bompard and RN deputy Marie‑France Lorho of offenses tied to a fictitious parliamentary job, imposing five years of ineligibility with exécution provisoire, fines, and a joint reimbursement of about €75,000 to the Assemblée nationale.
- Yann Bompard received an 18‑month suspended prison sentence and must relinquish his local mandates, while Lorho was also found guilty of subornation of a witness and, per her lawyer, will remain a deputy until the end of her current term.
- The court found Yann Bompard did not perform the parliamentary role between November 2021 and February 2023, judging the misuse of public funds particularly serious given the defendants’ status as elected officials.
- In a separate decision a day later, the Nîmes appeals court lifted former mayor Jacques Bompard’s ineligibility, and he has announced his candidacy for the March municipal election.