It's embarrassing that Édouard Philippe is launching into the European campaign. The former prime minister is due to hold his first meeting with Valérie Hayer, head of the presidential camp's list, on Friday in Besançon. Following a meeting of some 500 executives from his training, Horizons, in the capital of Doubs. But this “
moment of cohesion and substantive exchange
”, according to the words used in the party, is parasitized by suspicions of conflicts of interest around a public market. On Wednesday, searches took place at the headquarters of Le Havre town hall and the urban community.
The preliminary investigation concerns suspicions of “
illegal taking of interests, misappropriation of public funds, favoritism and moral harassment
”. Opened in December by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF), it followed a complaint, registered three months earlier, from a former deputy general director of the urban community, Cornelia Findeisen. Which one - a Franco-German from…
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