RN deputies on Thursday called for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the "
Marianne Fund
", after a series of revelations on the use of subsidies allocated to this fund against separatism, created after the assassination of the teacher Samuel Paty.
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Marine Le Pen's group in the Assembly cites in particular a joint investigation by the weekly Marianne and France 2 broadcast at the end of March, describing an opaque management of this fund launched in 2021 by Marlène Schiappa, then Minister Delegate for Citizenship.
'Grave accusations'
According to the investigation, the association that would be the main beneficiary, the Union of Physical Education and Military Preparation Societies (USEPPM), would have used it for a website and publications on social networks very little followed, and to pay two of its former leaders.
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The RN also evokes more recent revelations from Mediapart, according to which "
another structure received more than 300,000 euros when it had just been created and had no known activity
".
“
Under cover of the fight against separatism
”, according to Mediapart, she would have “
broadcast political content against opponents of Emmanuel Macron during the presidential and legislative campaigns
”.
"
These accusations are extremely serious and raise questions about the role of Marlène Schiappa in this affair when she claimed in June 2022 to have personally validated, with her cabinet, the choice of beneficiaries and the breakdown of subsidies", estimated the RN group on
Thursday in a press release.
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A motion for a resolution “
aiming at the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry
” on the management of the fund was tabled by the deputies of the group.
A vote of the Assembly would be necessary for it to be launched.
reactions
Several voices have already been raised on the left asking to shed light on this affair.
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (PS) thus said she was "
scandalized by the revelations
" of Mediapart and ready to take legal action.
“
What a shame
”, for her part reacted on Twitter the leader of the LFI deputies Mathilde Panot, castigating the sums allocated “
to clowns to hit the opponents of Macron in the middle of the presidential campaign
”.
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The Secretary of State for Citizenship had indicated on March 29 to AFP that it had seized the general inspection of the administration of an audit on the question.
The Paris prosecutor's office had indicated that a report under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure from Christian Gravel, president of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR), was under investigation. analysis.
Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Wednesday that it was now in possession of the entire report, which is being analyzed, before a decision on a possible opening of an investigation.
Part of the family of Samuel Paty, professor of history and geography beheaded on October 16, 2020 by a radicalized Islamist, said they were "
particularly shocked
" in early April after the publication of the first investigations into the fund created after the assassination of the teacher.
