The couple of LFI deputies promises that he “will not let go” until all the light is shed on this affair, where several complaints have been filed by the various stakeholders.
The article has been removed, but the case is not over. This Wednesday, the couple of Insoumis deputies Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière returned to the recent defamatory accusations against him. On June 22, the magazine Point unduly accused them of having employed a cleaning lady of Algerian origin in an irregular situation, advancing alleged exchanges of SMS – obviously falsified – as proof. The day after publication, the weekly presented its “excuses», removed the article, and the journalist at the origin of the article, Aziz Zemouri, was fired. But the elected officials, wrongly accused, do not intend to stop there.
Their lawyer told AFP last week that he was preparing two complaints, one for public defamation and the other for forgery and use of forgery and identity theft. This Tuesday, journalist Aziz Zemouri also filed a complaint for breach of trust, against a former territorial intelligence policeman, as well as against former UDI deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde, who has just been beaten by Raquel Garrido in the elections. legislative. A new element which, according to the Insoumis, comes to feed the thesis of a political vendetta.
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“The truth will come out”
This Wednesday on RMCRaquel Garrido claims not to have “all the elements that make it possible to understand the sequence of events“, and implicates his former opponent of the UDI. “The fact that there is a political motivation behind this journalistic stunt cannot be ruled out now“, estimates the deputy, for whom”the coup was planned to be carried out before the ballot“. “Jean-Christophe Lagarde felt that I was beating him because my campaign was progressing“, she wants to believe. According to her, “it is probable“that the outgoing deputy, fearing a defeat at the ballot box, “organized this machination“.
Also implicated, as the spouse of Raquel Garrido, Alexis Corbière considers for his part on BFM TV this Wednesday thatthe truth will come out“. The deputy judges that his companion was indeed “targetedby this defamatory publication, because of the “electoral contextand his chances of victory. The chosen one announces that hewon’t let go“, until the light is shed on this case.
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