Police raid Marine Le Pen's Front National party HQ in EU fake jobs probe

[TomSea]

Police raid Marine Le Pen's Front National party HQ in EU fake jobs probe

By Henry Samuel, Paris

20 February 2017 • 5:58pm

French police raided the headquarters of Marine Le Pen's Front National party on Monday as part of an investigation into alleged misuse of European Union funds to pay parliamentary assistants.

The European parliament has accused Ms Le Pen, a French presidential candidate and MEP, of paying FN party staff with EU funds which it says should only be spent on European parliamentary assistants.

It has demanded Ms Le Pen pay back nearly €340,000 (£290,000) and, faced with her refusal to repay the money, has said it will start docking her salary in order to recover the funds.

Continued: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/20/police-raid-marine-le-pens-front-national-party-hq-eu-fake-jobs/

[TomSea]

These charges and those ones against Fillon, her competitor, like the ones against Netanyahu in Israel, seem so-so. The charges look to be more politically motivated in ways.

[dfwgator]

This will only make LePen stronger in the end.

[TomSea]

If anyone is interested, Le Pen is in Lebanon today.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/225735-in-beirut-le-pen-says-assad-more-reassuring-solution-for-france

Checking out the situation in the ME, undoubtedly.

[dfwgator]

If anyone is interested, Le Pen is in Lebanon today.

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/225735-in-beirut-le-pen-says-assad-more-reassuring-solution-for-france

Checking out the situation in the ME, undoubtedly.

If she wants to see the future of France, Lebanon is about as good of a place to go.


There's a popular saying these days:

Beirut was once the "Paris of the Middle East"

Today, Paris is the "Beirut of Europe"

[Fishrrman]

This is only going to increase her lead in the polls...