Marine Le Pen is accused of having developed and participated in a fictitious job system in the European Parliament. The recruitment of several of her parliamentary assistants, all holding other functions for her or her party, questions.
“We have not violated any rule”. Marine Le Pen The national rally (RN), as well as 24 other people from the party for suspicion for suspicions of fictitious jobs in the European Parliament, has already been explained for a long time. This Monday, March 31, the president of the RN could be prevented from presenting himself to the presidential election 2027 if the verdict condemns her to an ineligibility sentence. The verdit of the court, expected at midday, could also deprive Louis Aliot of his mandate as mayor of Perpignan as well as a new candidacy.
The head of the thread of the far right party is accused, in the so -called parliamentary assistants of the RN, of having diverted the public funds allocated to the MEPs of his political training between 2006 and 2014 to finance the functioning of the party and remunerate people who worked for the RN, who was still called Front National (FN) at the time.
Marine Le Pen who was a deputy European between 2004 and 2017 is suspected of being one of the brains behind the “concerted and deliberate” establishment of a “diversion system” of public money. According to several elements of the investigation and testimonies, the former boss of the Flame Party has herself gave the instructions aimed at putting the financial windfall dedicated to MEPs of the RN for the benefit of the party. But Marine Le Pen is also accused of having hired false parliamentary assistants with her MEP envelope.
The Louis Aliot case: companion, colleague and assistant of Marine Le Pen
Several people recruited as parliamentary assistants from Marine Le Pen between 2004 and 2017 also held other functions with the far -right party, still others have maintained more personal relationships with the former elected official. Some present these two particularities like Louis Aliot, also accused and judged in this case of parliamentary assistants of the RN. The mayor of Perpignan, a member of the Flame party since the 1990s, was between 2011 and 2012 the Assistant of Marine Le Pen in the European Parliament.
Hiring had caused a lot of ink to flow since at the time, the two policies were in a relationship and some had denounced a conflict of interest. The regulation of the European Parliament actually specifically specifies that the funding allocated to each elected official cannot serve “to finance the contracts allowing the employment (…) of the spouses of the deputies or their non -matrimonial stable partners”. To which Marine Le Pen replied that Louis Aliot was neither a “spouse”, nor a “non -matrimonial stable partner”. Beyond these very subjective considerations, the man recruited as “local” assistant saw his contract subject to French law which does not mention the same precision.
Later, when the case of parliamentary assistants broke out, the recruitment of Louis Aliot as a parliamentary assistant was again questioned. It was revealed that then that he was the assistant of Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot also officiated as campaign director of the RN candidate in the 2012 presidential election. A work which had been presented as volunteering by Marine Le Pen and judged possible by “the modest time of [son] parliamentary assistance contract “.
A close friend, a bodyguard and a driver
During her term as a MEP, Marine Le Pen also recruited other personalities from those around her as parliamentary assistants. Among these, we can cite the current MEP Catherine Griset. The elected representative has been working alongside Marine Le Pen for over 25 years, most often as a personal assistant, but the two women would be friends before being colleagues and they were even sisters to a time.
These professional relations (and personal?) Drive Catherine Griset to be a parliamentary assistant to Marine Le Pen for five years between 2010 and 2016. But Catherine Griset is suspected of having benefited from a fictitious job in the European Parliament and having worked more or exclusively for the party, especially as chief of staff, than for his parliamentary tasks.
The case of Thierry Légier is also questioned in this case, because the man supposed to be the bodyguard of Marine Le Pen was also one of his parliamentary assistants. Thierry Légier is an almost historic employee of the Le Pen family since he worked for Father Jean-Marie from 1992 until 2010, when he became the bodyguard of Marine Le Pen. Even today, he ensures the safety of the RN lead head and that of Jordan Bardella. His performances as bodyguard could have been settled thanks to the envelope of the European Parliament, this is in any case what is suspected with tangible elements.