Montauban municipal representative Danielle Amouroux must have received about forty checks from a 96-year-old Montalban resident who was considered vulnerable. Following an investigation by the Montauban prosecutor’s office, the 76-year-old elected official will be tried in the Montauban judicial court in March 2025. While denying the facts, she admits to having received money from strangers, claiming that she was taken care of at her request.
Danielle Amouroux, a municipal councillor in Montauban suspected of abusing the weakness of a defenseless person between November 2018 and February 2023, will be tried in the Criminal Court of First Instance for these facts. Montauban We learned from a source close to the matter on March 11, 2025.
The elected official responsible for the Issanchou and Villenouvelle districts, with white hair and a big smile in the thrombinoscope photo of the site of Montauban’s town hall, would do everything possible to prevent the incident from being known. “He is afraid of losing the municipal delegation and the compensation that comes with it,” said a source who asked to remain anonymous.
Montalbanaise, 76, who has not had a lawyer to defend him during his detention, has even tried to use his status as an elected official to avoid investigation, a point that Montalbanaise prosecutor Bruno Sauvage could not confirm to us at this time.
According to our information, the incident began a few months ago when an elected official approached a bank branch to request a change of life insurance beneficiary for a 96-year-old Montalban resident.
The account holder’s insistence on the bank to carry out this operation, even though he has no authority to do so, makes him suspicious. The banking institution decides to report these issues to the prosecutor’s office by preparing Article 40.
In order to shed light on the case, the judge ordered an investigation by the inspectors of the Montauban police station, who specialize in financial crimes. The bank requests made to the elected official’s account would further complicate matters. Investigations revealed that the seventy-year-old had cashed around forty checks totaling over 56,000 euros from the wealthy Montalban native born in 1927.
Some of the check forms from the new generation were sometimes signed by the city council member himself. The defendant must have known this family, which was successful in the construction industry, through his work at the city hall. The son of the non-new generation would actually be an employee of the city hall. Today, this man, in a nursing home and under guardianship, is the beneficiary of the life insurance policy that the elected official has his eye on.
During her hearings, Danielle Amouroux denied the facts when she confirmed that she had received gifts and loans from this generous donor. The elected official’s husband, who testified, confirmed that he knew neither about the progeny nor the financial transactions that he would conduct on his own.
“It is true that he gave me money”
Contacted by La Dépêche on Thursday evening, the elected official did not reject calls for future judicial proceedings. Despite being hospitalized after suffering a malleolus fracture that immobilized him for 40 days, the elected official says, “I do not feel responsible in any way for this matter and I will defend myself.”
Asked about the facts that incriminate him, the councillor stated that he “served the complainant’s (now deceased) husband”, particularly by attending to his funeral. Danielle Amouroux continued: “He (the elderly person) did not want to leave his house, he asked me to look after him” and that the complainant called her “my daughter” and treated her that way. The elected official also admitted that he was paid for his support.
“It is true that he gave me a check. He said to me: ‘If you need money, let me know,’ he confesses, and he involves a relative who is not a stranger to him, who will not appreciate his closeness to him. After our call, the elected official had to contact the Mayor of Montauban, Marie-Claude Berly, to inform him of this situation…
