Marianne Fund for the Republic was launched by Marlène Schiappa a few months after the assassination of Samuel Paty. The main beneficiary of the fund, the USEPPM association, received an endowment of 355,000 euros that would have only fed a website and publications little followed on social networks.
The case began at the end of March with revelations from the weekly Marianne and France 2. The summary of this report denounces "a privileged treatment" reserved by the prefect Gravel to this association.