2023-06-06 20:45:50
Christian Gravel, the prefect responsible for managing the Marianne Fund, a structure launched in 2020 by Marlène Schiappa at the heart of a controversy, has submitted his resignation to the Ministry of the Interior, according to a press release published on Tuesday. This was “accepted”, said the ministry.
This resignation follows the publication of a report by the General Inspectorate of Administration (IGA) accusing him of having “reserved privileged treatment” for an association, the Union of Physical Education and Military Preparation Societies (USE PPM), when disbursing grants from the fund.
The Marianne Fund has been at the heart of a controversy for a few months and revelations from Mediapart and France 2 which pointed to the opaque management of this structure launched after the assassination of Samuel Paty. Supposed to finance associations fighting against radicalization and separatism and endowed with 2.5 million euros, the Marianne fund is suspected of having mainly benefited the USE PPM and would have notably made it possible to pay a salary of up to 120,000 euros two ex-leaders of the association.
A commission of inquiry launched by the Senate
Another association, financed by the structure, is singled out: Rebuild the common. According to Mediapart, this association would have published content targeting political opponents of the presidential party, particularly during the legislative campaign of 2022. The Senate had launched a commission of inquiry.
Christian Gravel, 49, was appointed in October 2020 secretary general of the interministerial committee for the prevention of delinquency and radicalization (CIPDR), under the authority of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the former minister delegate in charge of Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa. The current Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy defended herself at the end of April, assuring that no winner of the fund was his friend or his relative and that the content published by Rebuild the common targeted “all political tendencies”.
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