The national concentration was barely out of the first trial of European parliamentary assistants, which is again entangled in a similar case. Here there are still several financial irregularities in Brussels, according to a report revealed on Thursday, July 3 by various media, including the world.
With its partners of the former Identity and Democracy Group (ID), the Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella party is suspected of having “unduly spent” more than 4.3 million euros between 2019 and 2024, according to a report by the Directorate of Financial Affairs of the European Parliament.
“Very strange”
Given these revelations, the attached RN Jean-Philippe Tanguy sought to defend his training, declaring at BFMTV-RMC this Friday:
“Everything has been validated for years by the accounts of the European Parliament. Therefore, this is very strange that the accounts that have been deposited, which have been validated, are criticized for years later.”
If the RN did not exercise, during this period, neither the Presidency nor the General Secretariat of the Group’s Identity and Democracy (at that time dominated by the Northern Italy League), most of the summented sum benefited from two companies linked to relatives of Marine Le Pen: his former advisor Fréndéric Chatillon and his wife Sighild Blanc.
According to this document, presented by Le Monde, as well as by the German television program Kontralas irregulated “. “)
The same for the unanimous company, which pocketed more than 1.4 million euros for printing work, in addition to subcontracts at a lower cost, with a margin valued at 260,000 euros.
Sympathies and subsidies
Methods reminiscent of the so-called “campaign kits”, in which Frédéric Chatillon, Sight Blanc and the members of the Ex-National Front had been sentenced to fraud and abuse of corporate goods, for acts dating from the legislative elections of 2012.
Installed since in Rome and officially more in “commercial relationship” with the Flame party, Frédéric Chatillon, therefore, did not cut all the bridges with the formation of Marine Le Pen, her friend from the university banks.
However, the former chief of the GUD (Union Defense Group), an extreme right -right union dissolved in 2024, was publicly repudiated by the triple presidential candidate, due to his support shown to a demonstration of an ultra right group in Paris.
Sympathies that also appear in another component of the European Parliament report, dedicated to the multiple gifts of the RN and its allies to associations that have no “link” with their political activities in Brussels.
Among animal shelters and friendly firefighters, these subsidies also benefited a Catholic identity organization for the restoration of a parish or anti -abortion activities in Germany.
In total, more than 700,000 euros have been distributed in five years to structures often linked to MEP relatives of the extreme right, or located in its electoral region.
“Trenches War”
Contacted by AFP, the European Parliament indicated that it was “for the premature moment to give any comment” on this report, which must still pass in front of several cases before being approved.
The former secretary general of the Identity and Democracy Group, the Belgians Philip Claeys, did not deprive himself of denouncing “incorrect accusations” to the world, ensuring that “all payments made in the last five years have been billed, properly justified and controlled.”
Marine Le Pen, said Thursday morning in RTL, without being aware of the topic: “I don’t know what it is, I didn’t look at this file.”
But “there may be administrative disagreements with the European Parliament” and “we will try, once again, to solve them,” he added, before qualifying the institution “the political body (which) leads to its opposition a war of trenches” and he “looking for noises in the morning, noon and afternoon, in all circumstances.”
A particular allusion to the issue of European parliamentary attendees, which earned him a conviction at the end of March, making it not eligible for any election, presidential or legislative, at least until his appeal judgment provided by the summer of 2026.
Source: BFM TV
