'Chinese wedding' 裁判,公判 再開するs after 上院議員's 自殺

A 汚職 裁判,公判 over 偽の Chinese wedding trips in フラン 再開するd this week after it was 劇的な 延期するd when a 上院議員 who stood (刑事)被告 of complicity committed 自殺.

ジーンズ Germain, a の近くに 同盟(する) of 大統領 Francois Hollande, was 設立する dead in the garage next to his house just moments before the 裁判,公判 was 予定 to begin in April, having 発射 himself with a 追跡(する)ing ライフル銃/探して盗む.

The 67-year-old former 市長 of central フラン's 小旅行するs had been about to stand 裁判,公判 for 申し立てられた/疑わしい complicity in a 汚職 事例/患者 over Chinese "weddings" that took place in the picturesque Loire valley city between 2007 and 2011.

A photo taken on May 7, 2009 shows a group of 31 recently married Chinese couples from the city of Tianjin posing with then Mayor of Tours Jean Germain, in f...

A photo taken on May 7, 2009 shows a group of 31 rec ently married Chinese couples from the city of Tianjin 提起する/ポーズをとるing with then 市長 of 小旅行するs ジーンズ Germain, in 前線 of the townhall of 小旅行するs ?Alain Jocard (AFP/とじ込み/提出する)

A member of his staff, Lise Han, stands (刑事)被告 of 詐欺, mishandling public 基金s and "unlawful taking of 利益/興味s", a 明確な/細部 French offence for 公式の/役人s who have been 設立する to have used their position for their personal 利益.

While she was working at the City Hall on 観光旅行,事業 問題/発行するs, she was also 恐らく running a 私的な company organising the いわゆる wedding trips.

The trips did not 含む a real 儀式 but Chinese couples travelled long distances and paid large sums for what were 法案d as "romantic wedding" 一括s and were photographed in wedding attire in 素晴らしい 場所s, 含むing the 小旅行するs City Hall.

The 市長 even 提起する/ポーズをとるd with the couples in his 十分な 公式の/役人 dress.

Although she had 公式に 辞職するd from her 職業 as 長,率いる of the organising group, Time/Lotus Bleu, she is (刑事)被告 of continuing to run the 会社/堅い while at City Hall, which was in turn subcontracting the work to her 会社/堅い.

The 裁判,公判 kicked off on Tuesday in the 影をつくる/尾行する of Germain's 自殺.

"ジーンズ Germain no longer belongs to the 司法(官) system, he now belongs in history," his former lawyer Dominique Tricaud wrote in a letter read out at the start of the 審理,公聴会s.

Germain left a 自殺 公式文書,認める, 説 he was 存在 起訴するd "for political 推論する/理由s", something he 設立する "unbearable".

"You can be sure that I never embezzled a cent, that I did not take any money, that I always worked for what I believed to be in the best 利益/興味s of the people of 小旅行するs," the 公式文書,認める read.

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