Le Pen’s party president indicated that the operation included ‘the leaders’ offices’ and that files from the last regional, presidential, legislative and European elections were seized
Agents of the Financial Brigade and two judges carried out a search operation at the headquarters of the right-wing party regrouping (RN), on Wednesday (9), said the president of the legend, the president of the Le Pen party also indicated that the search included “the offices of the leaders” and that were seized archives of the last regional, presidential, legislative and European elections. “This is a serious attack on pluralism and democratic alternation,” said Bardella, a “cruelty” against the party, which leads polls for the first round of the upcoming presidential elections.
The operation is part of the judicial investigation opened in July 2024 on suspected illegal financing of campaigns for the 2022 and European presidential elections of 2022, according to the Paris Public Prosecutor. The court has already condemned the party in March for embezzlement of European public resources, which also resulted in the political disqualification for five years of its leader, Marine Le Pen. Bardella indicated on social network X that the operation started at 8:30 am and that “all emails, documents and accounting records” were seized.
Hoping to run for elections and awaiting the decision of an appeal, Le Pen requested the European Court of Human Rights (TEDH) the immediate suspension of his disqualification. The request was refused on Wednesday.
*With information from AFP
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