2023-06-14 15:50:57
“You don’t forget everything about your life, all the same, Madam? » Behind the irony, the annoyance of Senator Jean-François Husson (Les Républicains, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is palpable. For two hours, the rapporteur of the commission of inquiry into the Marianne fund has been battling against a Marlène Schiappa who is determined to dodge any personal questioning in this controversy, born of the discretionary allocation, in 2021, of hundreds of thousands of euros to two dubious associations, as part of an operation touted by the then Minister Delegate for Citizenship as a response to the terrorist assassination of history and geography professor Samuel Paty.
Rather than assuming responsibility in the chain of decisions that led to the funding, to the tune of 355,000 euros, the Union of Physical Education Societies for Military Preparation (USEPPM) by Mohamed Sifaouimore than 70% of which went into the salary of the essayist and his partner, and to donate 325,000 euros to Rebuild the common, a structure that had only existed for a few months and has multiplied political content in full electoral period, Marlène Schiappa chose to endorse « [sa] responsibility, all [sa] responsibility, but only [sa] responsibility “. A line of defense which consists of shifting the blame both to the administration and to his own ministerial cabinet. Throughout the hearing, the Minister insists: “I don’t know”, “I am not omniscient”, “I was not informed”, “nothing came to my mind”.
The fact that Mohamed Sifaoui was received six times by his cabinet prior to the announcement of the Marianne fund? “I am not a personal friend of Mr. Sifaoui”confines itself to answering Mme Schappa, “I did not receive it face-to-face”. She doesn’t know either “what is said between [son] cabinet and Mr. Sifaoui”. Maybe she came to greet him, but she didn’t “no memory” comments, let alone a promise of a subsidy.
“Mr. Gravel must have misunderstood”
Mr. Sifaoui will however announce on the telephone to Christian Gravel, the prefect in charge of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalization (CIPDR), who is in charge of the Marianne fund, that he is leaving the minister’s office, and that we asked him to apply for the fund. “Mr. Gravel must have misunderstood (… ). At no time did I request or order that Mr. Sifaoui be prioritized,” Marlène Schiappa defends herself, before agreeing: “It is possible that I encourage people to file applications, I do it all the time. »
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