The Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation at the end of September for "embezzlement of public funds" targeting the presidential campaign of LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, the Paris prosecutor's office told Le Parisien, confirming information from BFMTV.
This investigation, entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of economic crime, follows, according to our colleagues, a report made by the green deputy Julien Bayou last spring.
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This report would have its origin in a letter written at the beginning of March by the regional councilor of Île-de-France Babette de Rozières, who had decided to leave with a bang the campaign of the candidate LR by denouncing a campaign “outside the ground “, a term that she had repeated again with the Parisian a few days later.
In her letter, she also criticized the organization of many events to which the candidate ultimately never went.
“For several months, I have constantly regretted your recurring absences from the events that I organized in your interest (restaurant party, seniors party, bistro party, inauguration of the 1st site of the gastronomy trail at the hotel of the navy that I created in Île-de-France, week of taste with children from disadvantaged families, etc.)" could we read.
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