A criminal investigation into false allegations Point targeting LFI MPs Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbiere is accelerating. On Thursday, September 8, the investigation was entrusted to an investigating magistrate, to whom a former associate of UDI chief Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who released him from police custody, is due to appear.
The Prosecutor’s Office of Paris started a judicial investigation on the morning of this Thursday, September 8.Allegations of organized fraud, use of forgery and forgery, theft of identity or personal information and concealment of theft“, he said. A person within the scope of these investigationsis being sent today for arraignment and possible indictment before an investigating judge“, the prosecution said. That suspect, Rudy Sukar, a former associate of Jean-Christophe Lagarde, had been in police custody since Tuesday.
UDI leader and former deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who was beaten by Raquel Garrido in June’s legislative elections in Saint-Saint-Denis, was arrested at his home on Wednesday morning. His police custody was lifted between Wednesday and Thursday night, with no prosecution at this stage, the prosecution announced. His lawyer declined to comment.
Police officer Anuar Buhajela, also known as Noam Anuar, was also released without prosecution at this stage late Wednesday afternoon. On assignment in the town hall of Drancy (Saint-Saint-Denis), he was arrested yesterday by the police. The city of around 70,000 is the former stronghold of Jean-Christophe Lagarde, which has been led by his wife Aude Laville-Lagarde since 2017.
The case began in June, immediately after the second round of legislative elections, when an article by journalist Aziz Zemuri was published on the Point website, in which he unjustifiably accused the couple of exploiting an illegal cleaner. Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbiere immediately denied those accusations. “Everything is fake“, they complained. Very rarely, the article was retracted the next day, and the paper admitted in a message to readers thatdetected as false“and”lying“. recognizing his flaws”internal control processthe weekly launched an internal investigation, and Aziz Zemouri was fired at the end of June.
Three complaints
The Paris prosecutor’s office launched a preliminary investigation on June 29 to examine the three complaints of Garrido-Corbiere, Aziz Zemouri and Jean-Christophe Lagarde. The journalist targets former UDI MP and Anuar Buhajela in his complaint.
According to her account, it was this police officer who contacted her in late May to contact a woman who claimed to be the Garrido-Corbière couple’s undeclared and undocumented housekeeper. Anouar Buhajela told him to work for Jean-Christophe Lagarde, assures Aziz Zemouri in his complaint to AFP.
For my Nabila Asmane and Vincent Brengart, lawyers for Anuar Buhajela;Mr. Zemuri’s complaint is a smokescreen to deny the apparent lack of investigation he has demonstrated while crucifying one of his sources.“. The journalist “tried to protect himself from resentment by firing on all cylinders, even the most irrational“, the two councils condemned.
Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who has led the UDI (Union of Democrats and Independents) since 2014, has in turn filed a complaint for breach of trust. When it was announced that Mr. Largard was in police custody on Wednesday, Raquel Garrido said to herself:glad the investigation is moving forward“. “I remind you that this case is much more than just defamation or insult. This is a violation of criminal law.“, he added on BFMTV, hoping that “justice reaches its end“.
The Crime Against Persons Squad (BRDP) is leading the investigation. The Garrido-Corbière couple also filed a second defamation complaint against Aziz Zemouri and Le Point.
Source: Le Figaro
