New legal twist in the case concerning the false accusations against Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido.
According to our information, Jean-Christophe Lagarde was placed in police custody this Wednesday morning after being arrested at his home.
This police custody is part of the investigation opened on June 29 and entrusted to the BRDP, confirms the Paris prosecutor's office.
The former UDI deputy, beaten in the last legislative elections by Rachel Garrido, is the subject of a complaint for "breach of trust" filed at the end of June by the journalist from Point Aziz Zemouri, author of the article which implicated the couple of LFI deputies before being withdrawn.
The complaint was lodged by name against the president of the UDI and a former territorial intelligence policeman in the department, a member of the Vigi police union, Anouar Bouhadjela, known as Noam Anouar, whom Aziz Zemouri presents as the source of the false accusations against the two elected.
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In his complaint, the journalist from Le Point, who claims to be the victim of political manipulation, implicates the outgoing deputy by arguing that when the controversy broke out, the latter had posted on Twitter "comments" that the journalist had “only held with” the police officer on the alleged blocking of the article.
The article in question published on the Point website accused the couple of LFI deputies of having exploited an undocumented cleaning lady at their home in Bagnolet, which they had immediately firmly denied: "Everything is false", had- they protested.
Very rare fact, the article had been withdrawn the next day and the director of Point Etienne Gernelle had recognized “errors and breaches of caution”, in a message on Twitter and on the site of the weekly.
