Fake Garrido-Corbière affair: an investigation opened for fraud


An investigation was opened on Wednesday for fraud after the complaint of the couple of LFI deputies Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, wrongly implicated in an article in the Point finally withdrawn, said the Paris prosecutor’s office on Thursday, confirming information from BFMTV.

June 23, Point had to remove from its website an article posted the day before, which accused the couple of having exploited an undocumented employee, which he immediately firmly denied: “everything is false”, protested the deputies. Very rare, the article had been removed the next day. In an address to its readers, the newspaper admitted on Tuesday that the article had “turned out to be false” and “lies”.

“A smoke” summoned by “Le Point”

Point invoked an “external smokeout, first” by writing: “people probably sought to sell a false story to discredit Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière”. The weekly also explained that the screenshots of the text messages allegedly exchanged between the false employee and Raquel Garrido, and published by the journalist, “constituted a rough montage”.

At the same time, Point opened an internal investigation, the author of the article was laid off and summoned to an interview prior to a possible dismissal. The two deputies had for their part filed two complaints, including one against X for forgery and use of forgery and identity theft.

A complaint filed against Jean-Christophe Lagarde

On Monday, the director of Point Etienne Gernelle declared that the false information had been “invented” by still unknown speakers, then passed on by a journalist who had “melted a lead”. On Tuesday, the journalist from Point Aziz Zemouri for his part filed a complaint against the former UDI deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde and an ex-policeman, affirming that the latter, “who would be seconded to the town hall of Drancy”, whose mayor is the wife of Jean-Christophe Lagarde had contacted him at the end of May to put him in touch with a woman claiming to be the housekeeper, undeclared and without papers, of the couple of LFI deputies.

Raquel Garrido, 48, was elected deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis against Jean-Christophe Lagarde in the second round of the legislative elections on June 19.



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