2023-04-16 11:45:16
Following the revelations on the use of the allocated subsidies, the chairman of the Senate finance committee, the socialist Claude Raynal, asked the government by Wednesday for all the documents concerning the “Marianne Fund” against the separatism.
“I wish to have communication (…) no later than Wednesday, April 19 at 6 p.m. of the “47 files submitted online having met the eligibility criteria for the call for projects from the “Marianne Fund”” as well as any element concerning the selection committee or committees, wrote Mr. Raynal on Friday, in a letter consulted by Agence France-Presse, confirming an information of Sunday newspaper.
By virtue of his powers as Chairman of the Finance Committee, Mr. Raynal also demands to know the amount of subsidies granted and “any control result” of their use, in this letter sent to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and to the Secretary of State for Citizenship, Sonia Backès.
A joint investigation of the weekly Marianne and France 2released at the end of March, describes an opaque management of this fund launched in 2021 by Marlène Schiappa, then Minister Delegate for Citizenship, after the assassination of the teacher Samuel Paty.
Structure with “no known activity”
According to the investigation, the association which would be the main beneficiary, the Union of Physical Education and Military Preparation Societies (USEPPM), would have used it for a website and publications on social networks very little followed, and to pay two ex-executives.
In addition, several left-wing personalities, including Anne Hidalgo, have been attacked in content from Rebuild the Common, a structure which, according to more recent revelations from Mediapart, “received more than 300,000 euros of public money, when it had just been created and had no known activity”. The mayor of Paris and the head of the deputies La France insoumise (LFI), Mathilde Panot, have announced to take legal action.
The Paris prosecutor’s office reported on Friday that a report from Christian Gravel, president of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR), was being analyzed, before a possible opening of an investigation.
National Rally (RN) deputies have called for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, like LFI deputy Aurélien Saintoul and socialist senator Rachid Temal. “We owe it to democracy” et “We owe it to all those who were bruised by the attack on Samuel Paty”explains the senator from Val-d’Oise.
But, according to Marlène Schiappa’s firm, “talking about embezzlement or campaign financing is false and misleading”. The State Secretariat for Citizenship announced on March 29 that it had asked the General Inspectorate of the Administration for an audit on this file.
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