Xavière Tiberi is the spouse of former mayor of Paris Jean Tiberi

Jean Tiberi

Jean Tiberi is a French politician who was mayor of Paris from May 22, 1995 to March 24, 2001. , he is mayor of the 5th arrondissement of Paris and deputy to the French National Assembly from the second district of Paris....

. She is mostly known for being involved in corruption scandals in the Paris region

Corruption scandals in the Paris region

In the 1980s and 1990s there were, in the Paris region , multiple instances of alleged and proved political corruption cases, as well as cases of abuse of public money and resources...

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Xavière Tiberi received 200,000 French Franc

French franc

The franc was a currency of France. Along with the Spanish peseta, it was also a de facto currency used in Andorra . Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money...

s for a report on francophonie for the general council of the Essonne

Essonne

Essonne is a French department in the region of Île-de-France. It is named after the Essonne River.It was formed on 1 January 1968 when Seine-et-Oise was split into smaller departments.- History :...

 département. This 36-page long report, possibly written after the payment as a justification, was extremely poorly written (contained numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes, for instance). http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-356627,0.html

In 1998, a justice-ordered search of Jean and Xavière Tiberi's apartment on the Place du Panthéon showed that they possessed illegal firearms. They were not prosecuted in exchange for the destruction of the weapons. http://www.lexpress.fr/Express/Info/France/Dossier/tiberi/dossier.asp?ida=168836

The above actions are sometimes referred to by the press as Corsica

Corsica

Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

n mores http://www.lexpress.fr/Express/Info/France/Dossier/tiberi/dossier.asp?ida=168836.

On 9 November 2004, Xavière Tibéri and Aurélie Filipetti, an elected official from the French Green Party, wrangled after a tense district council meeting. Each of them accused the other one of assault or threats. Mrs Tibéri had a head trauma, which she claimed was caused by Mrs Filipetti pushing her over; she filed a complaint.

Xavière Tiberi was caricatured on Les Guignols de l'info

Les Guignols de l'info

Les Guignols de l'info is a satirical latex puppet show broadcast on Canal+, a French subscription-based television channel. Hosted by a puppet facsimile of TF1 news anchor Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, Les Guignols is similar to the 1984–1996 British show Spitting Image...

as an aggressive, dishonest, vulgar and greedy woman.