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Politico (17 May 2021)

BY CLEA CAULCUTT

French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti has accused Marine Le Pen of trying to dismiss an investigation into her as being politically motivated.

The criticism comes after Journal du Dimanche, a weekly newspaper, reported Sunday that the National Rally had set up “an organized fraudulent system of misappropriation of European funds via [the creation of] fake jobs for parliamentary assistants,” citing a 98-page police report.

Le Pen, who’s trailing President Emmanuel Macron in polls ahead of a 2022 election, dismissed the allegations on Twitter as being “nothing new” and showed on the contrary how well she was doing in the polls.

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