The National Gathering denounced Sunday a political maneuver of power after the publication in the Sunday Journal (JDD) of a police report summarizing the investigation which has earned Marine Le Pen to be indicted since 2018 for suspicion of 'fictitious jobs of RN MEPs' assistants.
"The JDD, official organ of Macronist power, emerges the same endless affair of parliamentary assistants, as in each election," reacted on Twitter Marine Le Pen, angry to see this case resurface one month from the regional elections scheduled for the 20 and June 27.
The JDD, an official organ of Macronist power, emerges the same endless affair of parliamentary assistants, as in each election.
Nothing new under the sun, except maybe some good polls in sight?
MLP https://t.co/MkFLckbIsq
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) May 16, 2021
"Nothing new under the sun, except maybe some good polls in sight?"
"Continued Marine Le Pen on Twitter.
The treasurer of the RN, Wallerand de Saint-Just, directly accused on BFM TV the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti of being at the origin of the "leak" of the report, "a vile tissue of inaccuracies and slander », Denouncing a« violation of the secrecy of the instruction ».
" I have never done it "
An accusation answered later in the day, Sunday, the Minister of Justice, on the same channel.
"It is one more lie, of the gutter policy," he denounced.
And Eric Dupond-Moretti to deplore "that the minutes are the object of a publication", even for Marine Le Pen, "who is a litigant like the others".
"The Constitution forbids me, I have never done it," added the politician, who launched a campaign in Hauts-de-France to prevent a victory for the RN.
Marine Le Pen "uses and instrumentalizes this procedure to say that the police, which she supports all the time, would have obeyed the Minister of Justice", also denounced Éric Dupond-Moretti, asking "Marine Le Pen and her comrades to respect police and justice ”.
Investigation against the RN: for Éric Dupond-Moretti (@E_DupondM), "Marine Le Pen uses and instrumentalizes this procedure" pic.twitter.com/dlC49iGoSF
- BFMTV (@BFMTV) May 16, 2021
Le Journal du dimanche reports a 98-page report from the anti-corruption office (OCLCIFF) dated February 15 and addressed to the examining magistrate Claire Thépaut, who led the investigations.
The magistrate was however appointed in December to the court of Bobigny and is no longer in charge of the case.
The report summarizes, "possibly for the benefit of the new magistrate in charge of the case" comments one of the actors in the case, the elements gathered by the investigation opened in March 2015 and entrusted at the end of 2016 to investigating judges from the cluster. financier of the Paris court.
About 25 elected officials and assistants of the RN, including the president Marine Le Pen, her father Jean-Marie and senior leaders, are indicted for "embezzlement of public funds" or concealment of this offense.
The magistrates suspect the RN of having "in a concerted and deliberate manner" set up a "system of diversion" of the envelopes allocated by the EU to each deputy to pay parliamentary collaborators (21,000 euros per month).
These collaborators would have worked in reality for the frontist party, thus allowing it substantial savings on its wages.
"Completely unacceptable practices"
The publication of this report was an opportunity for opponents of the RN, one month before the regional elections.
"Obviously Marine Le Pen and the National Front have a problem with public money," criticized the boss of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner on LCI / RTL / Le Figaro.
The ex-LR Valérie Pécresse denounced on radio J "totally unacceptable practices" which say, according to her, "a lot about the cynicism and the methods of the RN".
"The RN in the European Parliament, it's a bit
Take the sorrel and shoot yourself,
" replied Secretary of State Clément Beaune on Europe 1 / Cnews / Les Echos.