France: Pierre-Edouard Stérin Refuses to Go to the Convocations of the Parliament, Which Takes Justice

For the second time in less than a week, Conservative billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin did not appear in the assembly on Tuesday, May 20, before the committee of inquiry on "the organisation of elections in France", whose president therefore announced that he would bring the matter before the courts.

Billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin refused Tuesday, May 20, for the third time, to go to his convocation before a commission of inquiry of the National Assembly. In "A l'air libre", investigation into the ultra-conservative entrepreneur who, with the Pericles project, dedicates part of his fortune to the political and cultural "victory" of the far right.

The entrepreneur, the initiator of a political project called "Pericles" aimed at "making an elite rise" with "all right-wing forces", for the third time shunned the parliamentary commission of inquiry.

PARIS — The office of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the organization of the elections will refer the matter to the Paris public prosecutor for failure to appear after Pierre-Edouard Stérin's further absence from his hearing scheduled for Tuesday, May 20. "Mr. Stérin is not above the laws of the Republic," pointed out Thomas Cazenave, president of the commission, deploring the billionaire's refusal to appear in person at the hearin…

The financial billionaire of the far right demanded, after having cancelled twice his coming to the National Assembly, a hearing "by video conference" Tuesday 20 May in front of the commission on the organisation of elections in France.

The Conservative Liberal billionaire once again refused to be heard by Members in a committee of inquiry, proposing to make himself available by videoconference.