Former Prime Minister Jean Castex has been in police custody since Thursday morning for charges of false, use of false and embezzlement of public funds. This police custody takes place in the premises of the Montpellier gendarmerie, as confirmed by BFMTV on February 13, 2025, citing a judicial source which also validated the information of Midi-Libre.
The judicial source contacted by BFMTV said that no concept of personal enrichment is involved at this stage. This preliminary survey was initiated by the Montpellier prosecution after a report made in December 2023 by the Anticor association, specialized in the fight against corruption.
The investigations relate to suspicions linked to decisions taken by Jean Castex in 2017, when he was at the head of the Community of Communes Conflent Canigo, located in the Pyrénées-Orientales. Currently, Jean Castex is president of the RATP and was summoned this morning for its police custody as part of this investigation.
“He was in police custody today, she was lifted. This is an investigation for embezzlement of public funds without personal enrichment, when he was president of the community of commune of Conflent Canigou“, for its part indicated a judicial source to AFP.
Jean Castex replaced in Matignon by Elisabeth Borne in May 2022
On May 16, 2022, Jean Castex delivered a speech in the Matignon courtyard, before officially leaving his place to that which had been chosen by: (current Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research). He then returned to his two years which had brought him “To face with the French people with a series of very exceptional, difficult, painful events “, In reference to the pandemic and the two periods of containment. had then added: “I know how difficult months have been difficult (…) I tried to lead the boat in exceptional circumstances, with a single objective: to protect, appease, explain, collect, federate.” “I gave myself without restraint to this great function“, he also assured before highlighting the qualities of Elisabeth Borne”of righteousness, competence, voluntarism “ And to wish him “good luck“.
At this stage of the case, Jean Castex remains presumed innocent of the facts which are reproached for him
