Overview

• Twenty Financial Brigade officers wearing bulletproof vests and two investigating judges began the operation at the RN’s Paris headquarters at 8:50 AM on July 9.
• Officials confiscated all internal emails, documents and accounting ledgers to support a year-old judicial investigation.
• The probe, opened in July 2024, targets suspected fraud, money laundering and forgery tied to loans from private individuals.
• Marine Le Pen’s April conviction for misappropriating EU funds and her subsequent five-year electoral ban have intensified scrutiny of the party’s finances.
• RN president Jordan Bardella denounced the search as a partisan attack on pluralism, and no party members have been formally charged to date.