It is the person concerned himself who made this information public, specifying that he wishes to reserve his statements for the magistrates who will be in charge of this procedure.
In fact, it appears to be a subsidy granted to the association that promoted and organized the Jorge François Forum, in which Philippe Pradal held a leadership role, which could constitute, from a formal point of view (as he did not leave the room during the vote on this resolution), an illegal conflict of interest.
It is the association Anticor, whose president is the Nice native Picard, that was at the origin of the report:
On December 20, 2012, the municipal council of Nice granted the association “Centre culturel et diaconie de Saint-Pierre d’Arène” a lease of 18 years (renewable once) providing free use of 1,400 m2 of premises, and also a subsidy of 1.5 million euros.
Problem: this association, created a month earlier, had Philippe Pradal as its treasurer, a municipal councilor with a sub-delegation for public accounts and a member of the city’s finance commission.
Anticor 06 reported these facts to the Public Prosecutor of Nice on December 11, 2015.
Following this report, the current deputy mayor of Nice, Philippe Pradal, was brought before the criminal court of Nice on October 11, 2019, for illegal conflict of interest (an offense punishable by five years in prison and a fine of €500,000).
The Public Prosecutor of Nice explained that the prosecution was about “the payment of subsidies for either operational or investment purposes between 2012 and 2016”.
