They are undoubtedly the least parliamentary assistants of the entire process of the National Front assistants in the European Parliament: Jean-Marie Le Pen’s private secretary and his bodyguard appeared on Monday, October 7, on the fourth day of the audiences, in Paris. They did everything possible, for the benefit of the party, to ensure that they still have one foot in Strasbourg and the other in their esteemed president, but the position is untenable. The court evidently does not doubt that Jean-Marie Le Pen made them sign fictitious contracts to guarantee them a salary at taxpayers’ expense. That they signed because among the Le Pens we do not discuss party decisions.
Ironically, the MEP to whom they were assigned did not mince words and has been repeating for years that they never worked for him. Fernand Le Rachinel, who looks good at 82, reportedly hired secretary Micheline Bruna and security agent Thierry Légier in Parliament from November 2004 to August 2009. He reiterated that he had not been the one who had chosen, “This is the system that was put in place, I didn’t think it was illegal, I signed in good faith. But the system didn’t suit me, I was very involved in Parliament and I would have liked to have real assistants. “Anyway, it was Jean-Marie Le Pen who decided everything.”.
His hearing before the investigating judge circulated within the RN, “and I loved it”he remembered; Marine Le Pen even judged that “His statements were despicable”. Fernand Le Rachinel is no longer old enough to be moved. Apprentice as a typographer at the age of 14, self-taught, the best worker in France, “which allowed me to have a bac + 3 equivalence thanks to Mr. Mélenchon” (then Delegate Minister for Vocational Training) – laughter in the room – created fourteen companies, served for twenty-two years as general councilor for La Manche, twenty-one years as regional councilor for Lower Normandy and twice as European deputy of the FN for 1994 to 1999 , then from 2004 to 2009.
“Everyone thought it was normal”
He met Jean-Marie Le Pen for the first time in 1979, became a printer for the FN from 1984 and was appointed a member of the political bureau until the crisis of 2008. The party owed him 40 million francs in unpaid bills, even so he lent 1.5 million to his friend Le Pen for the 2007 presidential election, then 6.8 million to the party. But he had to go to court to recover his debts and was not reimbursed until 2012. The printer slammed the door of the party in 2008 and turned to the Party of France, a small group located a little to the right of the Party National. Meeting.
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