French far-right party chairman accused of fake European Parliament job
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.
FrenchFrench far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen and 26 other people will stand trial on September 30th accused of a vast fraud in which staff of her Rassemblement National party were paid out of European Parliament funds allocated for parliamentary assistants. Now the party chairman, Jordan Bardella, its candidate for prime minister in recent and future elections, has been accused of also taking part in the alleged scam.
