Journaliste à Mediapart depuis sa création, en 2008, j’ai couvert la droite et l'extrême droite, avant de rejoindre le service « Enquêtes » en 2017.
• Livres : - Faute de preuves : une enquête sur la justice face aux révélations #MeToo (Seuil, 2021). - « Marine est au courant de tout...» : Argent secret, financements et hommes de l'ombre : une enquête sur Marine Le Pen (co-écrit avec Mathias Destal, Flammarion, 2017). - Informer n'est pas un délit(ouvrage collectif, Calmann-Lévy, 2015).
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By the time of his death in January 2025 the founder of the far-right Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen, had been out of front-line politics for a few years. But right until the end this deeply divisive figure still had the ability to make waves. According to a new will drawn up in August 2023 and whose existence Mediapart can reveal, Jean-Marie Le Pen bequeathed to his wife Jany the right to continue to live at the family's manor in a wealthy suburb of Paris. This has hampered his daughter Marine Le Pen, who only found out about this will after her father’s death, in her efforts to sell the property. As Karl Laske and Marine Turchi report, the veteran far-right figure's final wishes are now the subject of intense family negotiations.
Five years after Mediapart's revelations on the case, actor Adèle Haenel has been vindicated in court. On February 3rd filmmaker Christophe Ruggia was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, two of which are suspended, with the other two to be served wearing an electronic bracelet, for sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. The court said that the director had “taken advantage of the power” which he had over the young actor at the time. After the verdict – in what has widely been seen as a landmark case for the #MeToo movement in France - Adèle Haenel told supporters: “Thank you for being here to advance human rights.” Marine Turchi reports.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday published a ruling against France over a divorce case in which the wife was found to have been at fault for the collapse of her marriage because the mother of four had refused, over a period of several years, to have sexual relations with her husband. For the French justice system, the ECHR ruling marks the end of a notion of “marital duty” which has previously been cited by courts in apportioning the blame in divorce cases. "Marriage is no longer a sexual servitude," commented one of the divorcee's lawyers after the ruling. Marine Turchi reports.
The writer, journalist and broadcaster Caroline Fourest caused controversy earlier this year when she published a book called 'Le Vertige MeToo' or 'The MeToo Vertigo' about the #MeToo phenomenon. According to Mediapart's information, actor Sand Van Roy - the complainant in the sexual assault case involving filmmaker Luc Besson which was later dropped- is now suing Caroline Fourest and her publisher over that book. In particular Sand Van Roy accuses the author of having repeated 'fake news' which had already been denied several times – and without seeking her point of view first. Marine Turchi reports.
The chairman of France’s far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party is alleged to have been fraudulently hired as a parliamentary assistant at the European Parliament, while his party stands accused of fabricating evidence to protect him from potential prosecution over the matter. The allegations against Jordan Bardella, who was the RN’s candidate for prime minister in recent legislative elections, are made in a book to be published on Friday. Meanwhile, RN figurehead Marine Le Pen will stand trial alongside 26 others – and the party itself – on September 30th, accused of involvement in a vast embezzlement of European Parliament funds allocated for parliamentary assistants but which, allegedly, were used to pay party staff. Marine Turchi reports.
Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, the Member of the European Parliament who negotiated a Russian loan for France's far-right Rassemblement National, runs a foundation which received hundreds of thousands of euros in return for speeches in the Parliament that were favourable to Moscow, according to emails seen by Mediapart. When questioned about this Marine Le Pen, who was president of the party at the time of the Russian loan, did not respond. Marine Turchi reports.
Over the last six years in France the story of the #MeToo movement – which highlights and denounces sexist and sexual violence - has been one of both advances and staunch resistance. But the latest developments, involving cases which yet again have emerged from the world of French cinema, could mark a turning point. Lénaïg Bredoux and Marine Turchi report on the current state of the #MeToo movement in the country.
A total of 16 women have accused the actor Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault, including rape. While Depardieu has firmly denied the allegations, a French television documentary investigating the claims this month revealed hitherto unseen footage of his lewd behaviour. Amid the outrage sparked by the documentary, 56 showbiz stars this week signed an open letter denouncing the “lynching” of Depardieu. But the most notable of those who have leapt to the actor’s defence is Emmanuel Macron, who slammed what he called a “manhunt” against the actor, even wrongly suggesting the incriminating recording in the documentary had been doctored. In this op-ed article first published in French last week, Lénaïg Bredoux and Marine Turchi analyse the French president’s ill-judged intervention.
In 2019 a report from the French domestic intelligence agency the DGSI listed the “influential intermediaries” that were used by Russia in France during the run up to the European elections. The only four French political figures cited in this document were current or past members of Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National (RN). Among them was an Franco-Russian RN adviser at the European Parliament. Matthieu Suc and Marine Turchi report.
France's far-right Rassemblement National party recently announced that it has repaid the controversial loan it took out with Russian financial institutions. In doing so, Marine Le Pen's party is seeking both to portray itself as a good financial manager and remove what has become a political millstone around its neck since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yet the party's announcement came just five days after revelations by Mediapart raised fresh concerns over the close links between the the French party and the Putin regime at the time the loan was arranged. As Marine Turchi reports, questions still linger over exactly how the loan was obtained and the commissions that were paid to arrange it.
A preliminary investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations concerning the actor and director, who is perhaps best known for directing the 2019 film 'La Belle Époque', was opened on July 5th by Paris prosecutors. When approached, Nicolas Bedos, who benefits from a presumption of innocence, declined to comment. Four women have spoken to Mediapart about the film director. Marine Turchi reports.
This week the publication of a Parliamentary inquiry into foreign interference in France will reveal the close ties between Marine Le Pen's far-right Rassemblement National (RN) and the Russian regime of Vladimir Putin. The party, formerly known as the Front National, was itself responsible for this investigation and chaired the inquiry; on the surface this looks like an attempt at transparency. In reality, it was simply a ploy to try to clear its name, though the party is still furious over the contents of the final report, parts of which have been leaked. Mediapart spent many hours following the hearings conducted by the committee. Here Matthieu Suc and Marine Turchi report on a process that became a charade.
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Après l’enquête de Mediapart sur les faits dénoncés par l’actrice Adèle Haenel, l’hebdomadaire « Marianne » publie une interview du réalisateur Christophe Ruggia déguisée en « contre-enquête ». Sauf qu’aucun contradictoire n’a été réalisé.
Par les faits qu’elle dénonce et par la rareté du témoignage principal dans un milieu (le cinéma) où l’omerta règne encore, l’enquête que nous publions est singulière. L’actrice Adèle Haenel sera l’invitée de notre émission lundi 4 novembre, à 19 heures, en direct sur notre site.
Mediapart avait demandé à la Commission nationale des comptes de campagne (CNCCFP) la communication des contrats des prêts russes du Front national et du microparti de Jean-Marie Le Pen. La commission avait refusé. Nous avions saisi la justice, qui nous a donné raison.
Invité d'une émission de France Culture consacrée au Front national – son fonctionnement, ses affaires –, Mediapart a été décommandé après que Jean-Lin Lacapelle, le secrétaire général adjoint du parti, a fait savoir qu'il ne viendrait pas si nous étions en plateau.
La campagne du Front national expliquée et analysée par des chercheurs qui travaillent sur ce parti depuis des années. Son programme, ses discours, sa stratégie, ses électorats, l’organisation de son appareil, son maillage territorial: c’est l'opération «FN, l'œil des chercheurs» que Mediapart lance pour les campagnes présidentielle et législatives.
