PARIS — French police raided the Paris headquarters of far-right social gathering Nationwide Rally on Wednesday, seizing paperwork and accounting data, the social gathering’s chief stated.
Jordan Bardella, 29, who took over presidency of the favored social gathering in 2022, stated police seized “all recordsdata referring to the social gathering’s latest regional, presidential, legislative, and European campaigns — in different phrases, all of its electoral exercise.”
He slammed the raid in his message on X, describing it as an “act of harassment.”
“This spectacular and unprecedented operation is clearly a part of a brand new harassment operation. It’s a severe assault on pluralism and democratic change,” he stated
The raid got here after the social gathering’s former chief Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement in April. She and 24 different social gathering officers have been accused of getting used cash supposed for European Union parliamentary aides to as an alternative pay workers who labored for the social gathering between 2004 and 2016, violating the 27-nation bloc’s rules.
French prosecutors had no speedy remark.
