The official theme of the meeting was “The regions and Europe in the face of the financial crisis“. But unofficially, and according to a letter addressed to the parliament by one of its participants, it was devoted to the preparation of the internal election for the presidency of the FN.
As soon as the photos were taken, she would have launched, pointing to the flag: ‘Put this shit away for me.’
“According to this participant’s account, on entering the meeting room, Marine Le Pen took a European flag out of her bag and asked her staff to hang it on the wall and take pictures of it (which were then forwarded to Parliament for reimbursement). As soon as the photos were taken, she would have launched, pointing to the flag: ‘Put this shit away for me.'”, reveals Mediapart. Note that Marine Le Pen denied this version to Olaf.
Fictitious services, conflicts of interest… the list of shortcomings pointed out by the report is still long.
French justice is investigating
According to the words of one of the officials of the European Parliament to AFP, the Parliament counts “proceed with the recovery of sums unduly paid“with the targeted protagonists: i.e. 136,993 euros for Marine Le Pen, 31,089 for the ENL group, 303,545 for Jean-Marie Le Pen, 43,257 euros for Bruno Gollnisch and 2,493 euros for Louis Aliot.
In addition, the European Anti-Fraud Office would have transmitted its report to the French justice on March 11. And as the report points out, “the facts are likely to give rise to criminal proceedings against the aforementioned former Members for the fraudulent acts they committed to the detriment of the Union budget“. To be continued.