FRENCH SENATOR JEAN GERMAIN COMMITS SUICIDE BECAUSE HE FELT UNDER PRESSURE

USPA NEWS - PS (Socialist Party) Senator, Jean Germain, the former mayor of Tours was scheduled to appear Tuesday in the first day of the trial said "Chinese weddings." His lifeless body was found near his home, accompanied by a letter of farewell.

A 67-year-old Jean Germain, who was also the mayor of the city of Tours (150 miles from Paris), committed suicide in the garage of his home with a gun, tuesday april 7th. "This is likely a suicide with a hunting weapon," said the prosecutor of Tours, Jean-Luc Beck. "This is a terrible tragedy that a man kills himself because he does not want to be dishonored," said François Hollande, President of French Republic. ( Former General Secretary of French Socialist Party).-------------------------------------------------- Manuel Valls, Prime Minister (and member of the Socialist Party) said, "He's a friend I'm losing and we were related, I made him a tribute when I went to Tours. He has profoundly changed his city of "Tours" and he was an elected extraordinary. "------- The entire French political class has been moved and shocked by the suicide of a fellow senator. The Senate conducts a minute's silence yesterday to the Chamber, as well as municipal mayor of Tours council. Gerard Larcher, Senate President said about Jean Germain: " He felt doomed even before being judged."------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEXT : EXCERPTS FROM HIS FAREWELL LETTER TO A GESTURE OF NO RETURN.------------------------------- Here are some excerpts from the farewell letter of Jean Germain before he committed the fatal act: "I have not turned a penny." I know the hurt that I will do, the pain I am displaying to those who love me but one can not let the systematic hunting of politicians proceed normally on a daily basis. "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senator, was to appear in a trial that was to start on Tuesday (the day of his suicide) for "complicity in illegal interest and misappropriation of public funds" in the context of" Fake marriage" ( at the French way for touristic reasons) organization for Chinese tourists. The former mayor of Tours, celebrated at the Tours town hall between 2007 and 2011.---------------------------- The Tribunal Chairperson announced late morning the adjournment of the trial "due to unbearable circumstances." Source AFP, BFM Channel TV For more information see: www.senat.fr--------------