Marianne Fund against separatism: the three reports sent to the financial prosecutor’s office

by time news

2023-04-22 02:32:24

The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) confirmed this on Friday. The reports sent to the Paris prosecutor on the use of the Marianne fund, launched in 2021 by Marlène Schiappa to fight against separatism, were sent to her “today (Friday) by the Paris prosecutor’s office”. Three reports were sent to justice after the revelations of the weekly Marianne, France 2 et Mediapart on the opaque management of this fund endowed with 2.5 million euros launched by Marlène Schiappa, then Minister Delegate for Citizenship, and which would have mainly benefited four structures.

The main beneficiary, up to 355,000 euros, would be the Union of Physical Education and Military Preparation Societies (USE PPM), according to the joint survey by Marianne and France 2 broadcast on March 29. However, this money would only have been used to supply a website and publications with very little follow on social networks, according to the investigation of the two media. It would also have made it possible to pay up to 120,000 euros two former leaders of the USE PPM, including Mohamed Sifaoui, author of books on political Islam and terrorism.

The president of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR), Christian Gravel, had sent a report to the prosecution.

Anne Hidalgo and Mathilde Panot took legal action

Mediapart then revealed that several left-wing personalities, including the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, had been denigrated in the content of Rebuild the common, a structure which “has received more than 300,000 euros in public money, when it had just ‘be created and had no known activity’. Anne Hidalgo and the head of deputies LFI Mathilde Panot had in turn taken legal action.

After the assassination of Samuel Paty, a professor beheaded on October 16, 2020 by a radicalized young man, Marlène Schiappa announced in April 2021 the creation of this “Marianne fund for the Republic”, aimed at financing people and associations who would carry ” discourse to promote the values ​​of the Republic and to fight against separatist discourse, particularly on social networks and online platforms”.

Seventeen files were selected, the CIPDR announced in June 2021, but for “security reasons”, the list of beneficiaries was kept secret. The revelations about the management of this fund have sparked a lively controversy. RN deputies have called for the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, as has the PS group in the Senate.

“Talking about embezzlement or campaign financing is false and misleading,” reacted to Marlène Schiappa’s cabinet, stating that it had seized the General Administration Inspectorate for an audit on this file.

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