Overview

• Laurent Salles, 55, a former parliamentary assistant to Louis Aliot turned RN switchboard operator, shot himself at the Michel-Ange headquarters Saturday afternoon.
• He was rushed to Hôpital Lariboisière with life-threatening injuries and RN officials say his condition remains critical.
• RN president Jordan Bardella traveled to the site to meet staff and oversee the immediate response.
• Salles was among 24 co-defendants in the parliamentary assistants trial and received a six-month suspended prison sentence.
• Court records indicate he was hired in 2014 without an interview and worked on events for Yann Le Pen, and he wrote to relatives attributing his actions to a romantic crisis.