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French police conduct search at National Rally headquarters as part of financial investigation

PARIS, FRANCE, JUL 9 – The raid targets alleged illegal loans and fictitious invoicing in National Rally’s recent election campaigns, with no charges filed and the investigation ongoing, prosecutors said.

  • Police raided the headquarters of France's National Rally party to investigate alleged fraud and illegal financing related to recent elections.
  • Jordan Bardella, the party's president, reported that officers seized significant electoral documents during the raid, claiming it represented a serious attack on pluralism and democratic change.
  • Marine Le Pen, the party's former leader, was convicted of embezzlement in April and banned from office for five years.
  • The inquiry is examining illegal loans, overcharging for services, and fictitious invoices connected to Marine Le Pen's 2022 presidential bid and other party campaigns.
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It concerns loans of 1.8 million euros, allegedly granted to party candidates for the 2020 municipal elections and the 2021 regional elections, in cities such as Lyon and Nice.

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The day after a search of the National Rally headquarters for suspicions of illicit financing of the 2022 and 2024 election campaigns, Le Monde reveals that another investigation is underway in Marseille into previous campaigns and that billionaire Pierre-Édouard Stérin has been questioned in this case.

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While France's first party saw its Parisian siege raided on Wednesday, July 9, its members are shouting for an account settlement from the "system" that they have been vilipidating for years. What if it wasn't, normalization?

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Maxi-perquisition at the headquarters of the Rassemble National (RN) in Paris, within a survey of the French judiciary on alleged illicit funding to the party for the presidential campaign of three years ago, when Marine Le Pen was again defeated by Emmanuel Macron in the race at the Elysée. According to X reported by the secretary of RN, Jordan Bardella, the law enforcement forces broke in on July 9 just before nine in the headquarters of the f…

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Haiti24 broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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