Traduction en anglais d'un article paru dans Marianne de Frédéric PLOQUIN
There are no small savings. Patrick Balkany knows it. Prompted to set the electricity bill of his sumptuous villa on the Saint Martin Island, deputes mayor of Levallois-Perret would have conveyed the employee to come EDF dialogue with him he knew enough people to mutate in France, far from the Caribbean ...
It is known, Patrick Balkany not afraid of anything, especially when it comes to cross the white line. It is all the more confident that his voters Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), a city of which he is deputy mayor UMP seem forgive all deviations, to him and his faithful wife, Isabelle, as if they ate some admiration for their financial acrobatics.
No doubt they will find very daring, but also very strong, new episode. Indeed, not content to have on the island of St. Martin a sumptuous villa, delightfully called "Grapefruit", the mayor has the art to reduce its costs by all means.
We knew that Patrick Balkany regularly took in his luggage officially responsible officers to ensure his safety, for shopping or take care of the garden. But the mayor does not stop there. From what Marianne could discover, it also would challenge its electricity bills. It is true that they are salted. But is not this the price to pay when you do not skimp on air conditioning, which maintains a dignified pool Olympic performances, with a bar and an exotic garden of over 1 ha?
Balkany dares all ...
Why bother when you have long arms and friends to the head of EDF? Why miss to challenge the amount claimed when one is friends with one who led the box for almost five years, the famous Henri Proglio, he thanked a few days ago by the Elysée?
Invited to settle his debt to the public operator, Patrick Balkany, who dares all, would have conveyed to charge came negotiate with him he knew enough people to influence the result of his great career. For example, it could very well, a phone call, do mutate in France, far from the Caribbean.
This would dodge dream more of a citizen, not just the West Indies. But EDF director of the area would not have left impressed by the tone of the election. He even threatened to cut off the current, which is understandable given that the production of electricity in the islands, made from fuel combustion is one of the most expensive in France.
At last, a mediator was requested to obtain payment. But no official confirmation episode nor EDF nor for mayor of Levallois, where they certainly evoke the Antillean imagination ...