Anne Hidalgo during the 2024 Olympics press conference. (Paris, February 14, 2023) Chesnot
After a five-year legal battle against journalist Stéphane de Vries, the mayor of Paris has been forced to reveal spending reports for 2017, the year of his campaign for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“I finally have the 2017 expense reports for Anne Hidalgo and her company. The investigation is ongoing,” Dutch journalist Stefan de Vries wrote on Twitter. The latter made the request in 2018, after receiving approval from Paris City Hall to host the 2024 Olympics, to find out how much the event’s campaign cost taxpayers. The claim was rejected.
After five years of court proceedings, the State Council finally agreed with him. Received by Yves Charpenel, deputy secretary-general of the city and president of the Ethics Commission of Paris elected officials, Stéphane de Vray thus left on Friday, March 17, with six cases under his wing, corresponding to the expenses of representation, travel and rehabilitation. of the elected socialist and his five associates, as first reported by AFP.
Trip to Tokyo
As the latest edition reports Sunday newspaper , who also had access to the documents, the mayor of Paris thus kept an envelope of 19,720 euros in the 2018 expense reports. The elected socialist would spend almost everything and only return, according to his entourage, 5,817.86 euros. Of the expenses: foreign trips, seventeen in the period from January to September 2017; 8,951 euros for a week-long trip to Tokyo, during which he met members of the Olympic Committee, and 11,000 euros for a visit to Lima. Announcing the winning city of the 2024 Olympic Games.
Anne Hidalgo also used this envelope to transform her wardrobe. We mention, in particular, “the purchase of three Dior dresses (1188, 1840 and 1440 euros), a black Courrèges dress (720 euros), two Diane Von Fürstenberg dresses and their accessories (1660 and 895 euros) or even ankle boots.” From BHV (€320), red Minelli shoes (€109), navy blue Apostrophe coat (€650), sweaters, trousers and other blouses. We even find tights purchased at Monoprix in this inventory.
Populist voyeurism
To justify himself, his cabinet announced. “The mayor of Paris embodies France abroad. She should represent French culture and haute couture, like the first lady or the ministers. But these are not 10,000 euro dresses. Plus, he reuses them.” Since the release of these spending reports, some have worried that it will generate “unwarranted curiosity” from public opinion and “populist voyeurism”. “Those documents could only be transferred to the financial judges of the Regional Chamber of Accounts,” said Anne Hidalgo’s cabinet.
Source: Le Figaro
