False accusations against Garrido and Corbière: 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of the couple of LFI deputies Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, wrongly implicated in an article from Point finally withdrawn.

An investigation was opened Wednesday for fraud after the complaint of the couple of deputies LFI Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, wrongly implicated in an article of the Point finally withdrawn, indicated Thursday the parquet floor of Paris, confirming information from BFMTV. Last week, Le Point had published an article which unduly accused the couple of having exploited an undocumented cleaning lady, which he had immediately denied firmly: “everything is false”, had 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”.

Le Point invoked “external smoking, first” by writing: “people probably tried 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”.

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False information “invented” by still unknown speakers

At the same time, Le Point opened an internal investigation, the author of the article was laid off and summoned to an interview prior to 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.

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 Mr. Lagarde, had contacted him at the end of May to put him in touch with a woman claiming to be the cleaning lady, undeclared and without papers, of the couple of LFI deputies.

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



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