After his final conviction for rigging public contracts, Jean-Noël Guérini resigns from the Senate

President of the Bouches-du-Rhône general council from 1998 to 2015, he was sentenced to three years in prison, a 30,000 euro fine and five years of ineligibility during his appeal trial in 2022. This sentence was confirmed in cassation on March 13.

The former strongman of the Socialist Party in Bouches-du-Rhône Jean-Noël Guérini resigned from his mandate as senator after his final conviction in a case of rigged markets, the Senate announced on Thursday March 21.

The Court of Cassation definitively confirmed on March 13 the conviction of Jean-Noël Guérini to prison and ineligibility in a case of rigged markets, putting an end to a long legal battle dating back to a report in 2009.

He was replaced in the Senate by Mireille Jouve, who appeared second on his various left list in the 2020 senatorial elections.

Land pre-empted for his brother’s needs

President of the general council (former name of the departmental council) of Bouches-du-Rhône from 1998 to 2015, Jean-Noël Guérini, 73, was sentenced to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended, 30,000 euros in fine and five years of ineligibility, during his appeal trial in 2022.

He was accused, when he was head of the department, of having pre-empted land under the pretext of saving a rare plant, then of having voted for its resale to an urban community, in order to to favor his brother Alexandre Guérini, nicknamed “Mr. Brother”, who needed it for the extension of a landfill.

Seized in 2021 by the Minister of Justice, the Constitutional Council rejected the request for forfeiture of his mandate as senator – the fourth since 1998 – due to the absence of a final conviction. This allowed Jean-Noël Guérini to continue his activities in the Senate, where he again spoke at the beginning of March in a public session for the RDSE group, made up of radicals and left-wing radicals.