The French police made a raid on the headquarters of the far -right National Alarm (RN) in Paris this morning, as the party president reported in a post.
The French authorities made the raid after the launch of extensive investigation into complaints about offenses during several recent elections.
Complaints for illegal funding of the election campaign
Prosecutors said the raids came from a survey launched last year and are involved in complaints of illegal funding of election campaign, money laundering and the use of fake documents during the 2022 -year -old French election campaign of 2022 and the French parliamentary elections.
Specifically, alleged crimes took place between January 1, 2020 and 12 July 2024.
Party President Jordan Bardela confirmed to X that the headquarters of the National Alarm, “including the offices of its leaders – have been the subject of investigation carried out by approximately 20 armed police officers from the financial brigade, wearing a bulletproof vest.”
However, Bardela said that “he did not know exactly what the reasons for this action are” and claimed that “all the emails, documents and accounting records belonging to the national alarm have been confiscated”.
Since 8:50 am this morning, the headquarters of the national rally-including the offices of its leaders-have been the subject of a search led by around twenty police officers from the financial brigade, armed and in bulletproof vests, accompanied by two investigating judges.
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– Jordan Bardella (@j_bardella)
Marin Lepen’s conviction
It is recalled that, as at the end of March, the leader of the faction, Marin Lepen, had been found guilty of abusing public money by a Paris court and was imposed a five -year ban on public office, with immediate effect. This decision even excludes it from the Presidential match of 2027, unless it manages to overthrow its condemnation through appeal.
The court had ruled that Lepen, along with eight MEPs of its party, the National Alarm (RN), abused a total of 2.9m euros from the European Parliament’s funds, money intended for the employment of parliamentary assistants but were actually used to pay for party staff.
