The prefect Christian Gravel, responsible for the management of the Marianne Fund and boss of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR), submitted his resignation to the Ministry of the Interior, which accepted it, announced the Place Beauvau in a statement.
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The General Inspectorate of Administration (IGA) submitted on May 31 an inspection report on the subsidy paid in 2021 to the Union of Physical Education and Military Preparation Societies (USEPPM) as part of the "Marianne" fund. He continued: "After reading the report, Mr. Christian Gravel, Secretary General of the CIPDR, wished to submit his resignation, which was accepted." The summary of this report, transmitted by the Place Beauvau, denounces "a privileged treatment" reserved by the prefect Gravel to this association.
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Funds launched after Paty's assassination
The Marianne Fund, a project to promote the "values of the Republic", was launched in April 2021 by Marlène Schiappa – then Minister Delegate for Citizenship – after the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty. The case began at the end of March with revelations from the weekly Marianne and France 2.
According to their investigation, the main beneficiary of the fund, the USEPPM association, received an endowment of 355,000 euros that would have only fed a website and publications little followed on social networks. Some 120,000 euros were also used to pay two of its former leaders. The Mediapart website then revealed that several left-wing personalities had been denigrated in content posted online by another structure financed by the fund, "Reconstruire le commun", which obtained 330,000 euros.
