several new indictments, including Nicolas Bay

MEP National Gathering (RN) Nicolas Bay, the bodyguard Le Pen, Thierry Légier, paid as parliamentary badistant, and two other badistants have recently been indicted in the case of allegedly fictitious jobs of the National Front in the European Parliament, was learned Monday, July 9

Nicolas Bay, whose name runs to drive the list of the National Rally in the European elections, was indicted on June 8 for "breach of trust" the same criminal offense detained against the president of the far-right party, Marine Le Pen, in June 2017. Thierry Légier was indicted on April 18 for "conceal breach of trust According to a source close to the survey

A possible misappropriation of European money

The investigating judges investigate a possible "system" organized by the party, become at the beginning of June National Gathering (NR), and by its president, Marine Le Pen, to remunerate permanent staff with European funds earmarked for the hiring of parliamentary badistants.

On June 4, the Court of Appeal of Paris rejected the appeals brought by the Front National and Marine Le Pen, which challenged the jurisdiction of the French justice, also considering that the judicial inquiry was free from the principle of separation of powers.

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The investigation, launched in 2015 following a report by the former Socialist President of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, targets 17 elected or former elected members of the Frontistes and some 40 badistants. The investigations revealed e-mails and tables suggesting that the contracts of the badistants were broken down according to the credits available on the envelopes of the elected officials, without necessarily asking for the agreement of the latter.

Marine Le Pen is notably suspected of to have "given instructions" so that MEPs hire as badistants "actually occupying jobs" to the National Front, according to the terms of his indictment on June 30 2017, according to a source close to the file. Since the beginning of the investigation, the leaders of the RN, first and foremost Marine Le Pen, have constantly denounced "the cabal" of which they would be the victims.