Overview
- AC !! Anti-Corruption filed a complaint against X with France’s financial prosecutor alleging diversion of European Parliament funds tied to RN media training.
- The filing, drawing on Le Canard Enchaîné, says a coach paid from MEP budget lines was tasked from September 2021 with preparing Jordan Bardella for the 2022 presidential race.
- According to the complaint, the trainer was officially contracted to coach RN MEPs for media duties and was paid from the Parliament’s allocations for members’ activities.
- RN says Bardella contests the accusations and reserves the right to sue for defamation and calumnious denunciation.
- The group highlights related scrutiny, citing the EPPO’s July 2025 probe into the former ID group over more than €4.3 million in suspected misspending and Marine Le Pen’s assistants case headed to appeal in January–February 2026.