From our special correspondent in Hayange (Moselle)
To discover
Presidential 2022: where are the candidates in the polls?
The answer was not long in coming.
A few hours after the publication by
Le Monde
of an investigation into the campaign director of Marine Le Pen, Christophe Bay, the presidential candidate took advantage of a stroll on the market of the stronghold RN Hayange (Moselle), to confirm any his confidence in the prefect.
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In any case
", her place is not called into question in the campaign system, she assured.
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“
This type of filthy article, I have 40 years of experience in this field. I have known Christophe for six years. I have never seen or even remotely, any jeopardizes the type that are the subject of the defamatory article for which he will also immediately lodge a complaint and bring civil
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,
outbid the former lawyer.
In its article, the evening daily publishes a review of several administrative inquiries carried out between 2011 and 2016 on Christophe Bay, then prefect of Aube and Dordogne.
Unexplained expenses and uncompromising management would be blamed for the one who at one time was deputy chief of staff to Brice Hortefeux, to the point of convincing the Ministry of the Interior to dismiss him from his functions.
In a statement released this Thursday morning, Christophe Bay said: “
I have read the staggering allegations of the newspaper
Le Monde
.
I asked my lawyer to file the necessary complaints.
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