2023-04-16 12:48:17
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the socialist Claude Raynal, asked the government for all the documents concerning the “Marianne fund” against separatism, after revelations about the use of the allocated subsidies. “I would like to be informed (…) by Wednesday April 19 at 6 p.m. at the latest” of the “47 files submitted online that have met the eligibility criteria for the Marianne Fund’s call for projects” as well as any information concerning the selection committee or committees, wrote Claude Raynal on Friday, in a letter consulted by AFP, confirming information from the JDD.
By virtue of his powers as Chairman of the Finance Committee, Claude Raynal also demands to know the amount of the subsidies granted and “any result of control” 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.
Opaque fund management
A joint investigation by the weekly Marianne and France 2, broadcast 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. According to the investigation, the association that 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 the content of Rebuild the common, a structure which, according to more recent revelations from Mediapart, “has received more than 300,000 euros of public money, while it had just been created and had no known activity”.
The mayor of Paris and the head of deputies LFI Mathilde Panot have announced to take legal action.
The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated 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.
RN deputies have asked for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, like LFI deputy Aurélien Saintoul and socialist senator Rachid Temal.
“We owe it to democracy” and “we owe it to all those who were bruised by the attack on Samuel Paty”, believes the senator from Val-d’Oise. But according to Marlène Schiappa’s office, “talking about embezzlement or campaign financing is false and misleading”. The Secretary of State in charge of Citizenship indicated on March 29 that it had asked the General Inspectorate of Administration for an audit on this file.
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