French police raid headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s Front National party

‘French police were searching the headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party west of Paris on Monday in relation to an alleged “fake jobs” probe.
The European parliament’s anti-fraud agency, Olaf, has said that, in her role as French National Front leader Le Pen had during the 2011-12 legislature paid party staff with EU funds, which EU rules say should be used only to pay EU lawmakers’ assistants.
But the FN accused the authorities of staging a media stunt to discredit them.
“It looks on the face of it like a media operation whose goal is to disturb the course of the presidential campaign,” the National Front said in a statement.’
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