Fabien Roussel targeted by an investigation on suspicion of fictitious employment

Europe 1 with AFP 6:05 p.m., March 11, 2022, modified at 6:05 p.m., March 11, 2022

The communist candidate for the presidential election Fabien Roussel is targeted by an investigation on suspicion of fictitious employment after Médiapart accused him of having been paid between 2009 and 2014 as a parliamentary assistant without having actually worked, a-t- we learned Friday from a source familiar with the matter.

This investigation was entrusted, according to the same source, to the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses (OCLCIFF) by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF).

Questioned by AFP, the PNF did not wish to comment.

"Surprised and indignant"

After the accusations from the online media, Fabien Roussel, also number one of the PCF, had affirmed that he had "documents" proving his activity as a parliamentary assistant to Jean-Jacques Candelier (ex-deputy for the North).

"I was with him, and without him, to follow conflicts in Douaisis, (...) I have the documents of the work that I did with him on these subjects, with trade unionists", had declared Fabien Roussel at the end of February.

He then said he was "surprised and indignant" by the article in Médiapart.

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The candidate had specified that he had never won 3,000 euros per month as Mediapart writes: "I started at 2,460 net, I finished at 2,700."

"They investigated by questioning people who are at war with me. I don't just have friends, that's normal (...) But I have dozens of people who can say what we did together , the fights that we even won together with Jean-Jacques Candelier", he added.