2023-06-11 04:45:15
On Wednesday June 14, the Secretary of State for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Community Life, Marlène Schiappa, will have to answer questions from the Senate Committee of Inquiry into the Marianne fund, which she initiated. Announced a few months after the terrorist assassination of teacher Samuel Paty, in October 2020, this windfall of 2.5 million euros was to finance actions aimed at “promoting republican values and combating separatist discourse”.
As demonstrated by several journalistic investigations, but also the vitriolic report of the general administration inspectorate (IGA) and the hearings conducted by the senatorial commission of inquiry on the subject, the project ended in a fiasco in terms of audience and impact, while presenting serious irregularities. Mohamed Sifaoui’s association, the Union of Physical Education and Military Preparation Societies (USEPPM), beneficiary of 355,000 euros, is particularly targeted by the IGA, which considers that it has committed multiple frauds, in using most of the money to pay the salaries of its leaders. The IGA evokes facts of” breach of trust “ of ” forgery and use of forgery “, of ” hidden work ” or even” abuse of weakness “.
Faced with the scandal, Marlène Schiappa chose to disclaim all responsibility, by referring to Christian Gravel, the head of the interministerial committee for the prevention of delinquency and radicalization (CIPDR), who resigned on Tuesday, June 6, when the IGA report was publishedresponsibility for abuses. A vision that can however be largely qualified, if one crosses the declarations made, under oath, by the half-dozen people heard by the commission of inquiry. Mme Schiappa, contacted by The worlddid not respond to our requests.
Who piloted the CIPDR, the organization managing the Marianne fund?
“Wrongly asserting that it was an ad hominem decision by Marlène Schiappa is totally false and contradicted by the procedure”, wrote the Secretary of State for Community Life in a press release on April 7. A line of defense that she still hammered after the release of the IGA report, which quotes her only slightly: “Nothing implicates me personally in this report”, she told the Monde, Tuesday, June 6.
The facts put this version into perspective. When she took over, in July 2020, the head of the ministry delegated to citizenship, Marlène Schiappa obtained a new perimeter: the supervision of the CIPDR. This organization, initially intended to pilot the interministerial fund for the prevention of delinquency (FIPD), funding allocated to local security projects, has gradually taken on a new dimension, by seeing itself attaching the prevention of radicalization.
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