Front National staff under EU investigation.

La cheffe de cabinet de Marine Le Pen mise en examen dans l’affaire des assistants parlementaires du FN.

The FN leader in the Senate has been charged in the parliamentary assistants funding affair.

Elle avait été placée en garde à vue, mercredi, de même que le garde du corps de la président du FN. Ils sont soupçonnés d’avoir été rémunérés comme assistants au Parlement européen sans avoir occupé ces fonctions.

She and a body guard for Le Pen, were placed on notice of an investigation on Wednesday. They are accused of paying non-existent FN staff at the European Parliament from EU funds.

Marine Le Pen, au Parlement européen de Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), le 5 juillet 2016. 
Marine Le Pen, au Parlement européen de Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), le 5 juillet 2016.  (VINCENT KESSLER / REUTERS)

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La cheffe de cabinet de Marine Le Pen, Catherine Griset, a été mise en examen pour recel d’abus de confiance, mercredi 22 février, dans l’enquête sur des soupçons d’emplois fictifs des assistants du Front national au Parlement européen, selon l’AFP qui cite une source judiciaire. Elle avait été placée en garde à vue, de même que le garde du corps de la présidente du Front national, qui a, lui, été laissé libre sans être présenté aux magistrats instructeurs.

Catherine Griset, the head of Marine Le Pen’s cabinet staff, was put on notice of an investigation into an abuse of position for paying factitious FN staff in the EU Parliament, according to press and legal sources. She and a body guard for Marine Le Pen were placed on police observation but were released without the obligation to appear before investigating magistrates.

Une perquisition a également eu lieu au domicile de Thierry Légier, le garde du corps de Marine Le Pen. Il a été convoqué dans la matinée à Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), dans les locaux de l’Office anticorruption (Oclciff). Il est ensuite reparti chez lui avec les policiers pour que ceux-ci puissent y mener une perquisition avant de retourner à Nanterre pour y être à nouveau entendu. La cheffe de cabinet de Marine Le Pen, Catherine Griset, était elle aussi entendue depuis ce matin dans les locaux de l’Oclciff.

Thierry Légier, the body guard was accompanied to his home by police and then conveyed to the Office of Corruption for  a hearing. Catherine Griset will also have to appear in the same office to answer questions on the offence.

Marine Le Pen a une nouvelle fois “contesté formellement les faits” reprochés au FN dans cette affaire. Marine Le Pen will “formally contest the alleged actions” against the FN.

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