search of MEP Edwige Diaz, former MEP in police custody – Liberation

Member of the Gironde National Group and vice-president of the party responsible for the local establishment, Edwige Diaz was the subject of a search on Monday morning at her home in Bordeaux, as well as her office in the National Assembly, as part of an investigation to alleged fictitious work. These refer to the period in which she was a parliamentary assistant to Jacques Colombier, MEP from 2018 to 2019. The latter was also placed in police custody on the same day in connection with this case, and his house was searched at 6 of the morning. The man should go out in the early afternoon, confirmed Publication a source familiar with the matter.

In 2021, the anti-corruption association Anticor filed a complaint against Edwige Diaz, now 35, with the investigating judge in charge of the investigation into the fictitious jobs of the former FN in the European Parliament. This is a possible system put in place to remunerate people who actually work for the Lepenist party with European funds. According to Route 89 Bordeaux, Anticor, alerted by Edwige Diaz’s former running mates, had asked the Bordeaux Public Prosecutor’s Office to open a preliminary investigation, to verify whether the head of the RN in Gironde worked well for Jacques Colombier when she was his half-time assistant, and if such employment had not given rise to any compensation in favor of the latter during the 2021 regionals. According to the advice of Edwige Diaz, Me Alexandre Varaut, her client is “absolutely serene, she can justify every minute of her schedule” weather. The lawyer talks about it “political revenge”.