Overview

• Around 8:50 AM, a Brigade financière unit and two examining judges searched the party’s Paris headquarters and associated residences
• The raid is linked to a judicial inquiry opened on July 3, 2024, into suspected fraud and habitual private loans financing RN’s 2022 presidential, 2022 legislative and 2024 European campaigns
• Investigators confiscated all emails, internal documents and accounting records to support further examination
• Jordan Bardella denounced the operation as an unprecedented assault on pluralism and democratic alternation
• A parallel European Public Prosecutor’s Office investigation remains active into over €4.3 million in alleged improper RN spending from 2019 to 2024