An investigation was opened Wednesday for fraud after the complaint of the couple of deputies LFI Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, wrongly implicated in an article of the Point finally withdrawn, indicated Thursday June 30 the parquet floor of Paris, confirming information from BFMTV .
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Last week,
Le Point
had published an article which unduly accused the couple of having exploited an undocumented cleaning lady, which he had immediately denied firmly: "
everything is false
", had protested the deputies.
Very rare, the article had been removed the next day.
The weekly also explained that the screenshots of the text messages allegedly exchanged between the false employee and Raquel Garrido, and published by the journalist, "
constituted a rough montage
".
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The author of the article was laid off and summoned to an interview prior to a possible dismissal.
The two deputies had for their part filed two complaints, including one against X for forgery and use of forgery and identity theft.
On Tuesday, Point
journalist
Aziz Zemouri for his part filed a complaint against former UDI MP Jean-Christophe Lagarde and an ex-policeman, claiming that the latter had contacted him at the end of May to put him in touch with a woman claiming being the housekeeper, undeclared and without papers, of the couple of LFI deputies.