Marianne Fund, a project to promote the "values of the Republic" launched after the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty in April 2021 by Marlène Schiappa. 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 Finance Committee of the Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, had unanimously asked on 3rd May to be endowed with the prerogatives of a commission of inquiry into the Marianne Fund.