A former advisor to Christine Lagarde when she was French finance minister has been placed under investigation for allegedly changing the route of a new TGV fast train line to prevent it going through his mother's garden.
A judge suspects "filial love" prompted François-Gilles Egretier to seek to shift a section of the new TGV line linking Bordeax to Spain some 3km (1.8m) to the north of a small village where his mother has a "bourgeois property" with a substantial garden.
Three years ago, Réseau ferré de France, France's state-run rail network operator, decided to make the final TGV route pass through the tiny village of Uchacq-et-Parentis in the Landes region of southwestern France. The new line would have impacted 60 homes including that of Mr Egretier's mother.
But a few months later, RFF went back on its decision to include the small deviation. Some 15 disgruntled inhabitants whose homes were now in the path of the altered route filed a complaint over why it was moved, leading to a six-month investigation. Full story...
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A judge suspects "filial love" prompted François-Gilles Egretier to seek to shift a section of the new TGV line linking Bordeax to Spain some 3km (1.8m) to the north of a small village where his mother has a "bourgeois property" with a substantial garden.
Three years ago, Réseau ferré de France, France's state-run rail network operator, decided to make the final TGV route pass through the tiny village of Uchacq-et-Parentis in the Landes region of southwestern France. The new line would have impacted 60 homes including that of Mr Egretier's mother.
But a few months later, RFF went back on its decision to include the small deviation. Some 15 disgruntled inhabitants whose homes were now in the path of the altered route filed a complaint over why it was moved, leading to a six-month investigation. Full story...
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