Rudy Succar, ex-collaborator of Jean-Christophe Lagarde (UDI), implicated his boss in police custody and admitted his role in the false information published at the end of June in Point targeting LFI deputies Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière. In a report released by The Parisianof which AFP was aware, the Brigade for the repression of personal crime (BRDP) details on September 8 the positions held in police custody by Rudy Succar and Jean-Christophe Lagarde as well as by a police officer, Anouar Bouhadjela, also called Noam Anouar.
Rudy Succar initially denied any involvement
The first will be indicted the same day by a Parisian investigating magistrate, in particular for fraud in an organized gang, forgery or identity theft, the other two left free without prosecution at this stage. According to the report, Rudy Succar will first deny before the BRDP “any involvement in the facts”.
He is then confronted with elements of telephony “designating him as the only person who could have been the user of the line presented as being that of the employee mistreated by the couple of deputies”. It was this alleged situation mentioned in the article in Le Point which sparked the scandal, before the article was withdrawn. Jean-Christophe Lagarde’s ex-driver “ends up” then “recognizes” that he had posed as this woman to the journalist from Point Aziz Zemouri, who is now a civil party in the investigation after his complaint.
Rudy Succar would have been “suggested to find information likely to harm” Raquel Garrido
With the approach of the first round of the legislative elections in June, Rudy Succar would indeed have been “seen suggested by the ex-mayor of Drancy to find information likely to harm” Raquel Garrido, who will finally win the ballot in this constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The ex-driver would therefore have “acted on his own initiative to satisfy his employer, Jean-Christophe Lagarde”, evoking “a form of psychological influence”, and “invented this story of a young woman in an irregular situation illegally employed by the couple “. He would then have reported it to his boss, without informing him of his lying nature.
The former head of the UDI initially rejected any role in the case, then admitted having spoken about the story of the housekeeper to the policeman Noam Anouar, because his known links with journalists could “establish or not the veracity” of the facts. While denying being “the instigator of this manipulation”. According to the report, Jean-Christophe Lagarde is the one “who had the greatest interest” in the publication of this article during the legislative elections.