The mayor of Paris has spent tens of thousands of euros on luxury clothes and over 100,000 euros on travel. The reaction of the institution
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, revealed that, between 2020 and 2024, she spent 84,000 euros on luxury clothes and 120,000 euros on travel abroad.
Anne Hidalgo/Photo: EPA-EFE
Some of the information about the expenses were obtained by the Transparence Citoyenne anti -corruption organization and made public by Mediapart on Tuesday, writes BFM TV.
The receipts published by Mediapart show that, in 2024, it bought two dresses in a total value of 6,320 euros from the Dior shop and a Burberry coat, worth 3,067 euros, in the previous year.
The mayor of Paris spent 125,000 euros on travel between July 2020 and December 2023, including two visits to New York, with amounts of 9,810 euros in 2023 and 10,034 euros in 2022.
Each year, Anne Hidalgo has a budget of about 20,000 euros to purchase clothes, including representation expenses.
The mayor does not use the entire budget and returns the unused amounts: in 2024 he left a balance of 714 euros, in 2023 of 4,900 euros, in 2022 of 5,800 euros, in 2021 of 14 euros and in 2020 of 2,800 euros, reveals Mediapart.
“It is a holy saint,” Bruno Poncet, a railway worker at Grandes Gueules, said on Wednesday.
Asked by Mediapart, Anna Hidalgo's team defended the duties of the mayor, stating that she represents Paris and France abroad, and accused Rachida Dati, her main opponent and mayor of the 7th, of not declaring thousands of euros in jewelry: “The mayor of Paris does not use the expenses of representation to buy jewelry and everything is declared.”
Also, Paris City Hall claims that the Transparence Citoyenne Association “EHe is financed by the billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin ” and accuse her of being “close to the far right ”.
The association denies any collaboration and ensures that it also investigates right orientation mayors.
The French Minister of Culture, accused of not passing his collection of jewelry in the declaration of wealth
Rachida Dati, the Minister of Culture, was accused by anti-corruption prosecutors of not passing their collection of expensive jewelry in a declaration of wealth that all the members of the Government are forced to submit, writes Politico.
The investigation follows a report published in April by Libération, according to which, which is also rated as a favorite in the race to succeed Anne Hidalgo at the Paris City Hall next year, would not have told the French authority for transparency 19 jewelry with an estimated total value at 420,000 euros.
The elected officials in France are obliged to declare the goods whose value exceeds 10,000 euros. Failure to comply with this obligation can attract a criminal sanction of up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 euros.
Daati vehemently rejected any accusation of violation of the law, stating in May that he does not have “Nothing to be corrected” in his statement of wealth.
Her office did not respond immediately to a request for comments after the statement of prosecutors on Tuesday, who announced the opening of the investigation “as a result of alerts regarding possible offenses related to non -declaration of jewelry. ”
This is not the only legal issue faced.
During the summer, Dati learned that he would be judged with the former CEO of Renault-Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, on the charge of corruption.
Prosecutors claim that DATATi was paid for consulting services by a subsidiary of the car company, without actually fulfilling the role of consultant, being paid in return to promote the company's interests as a member of the European Parliament. She denied any guilt in this case.
