The home of prefect Christian Gravel, former head of the interministerial committee for the prevention of delinquency and radicalization, responsible for the controversial allocation of grants from the Marianne fund against “separatism”, was searched on the morning of Tuesday, June 13, learned France Télévisions and franceinfo from sympathetic sources. Christian Gravel had resigned from his post last week after the publication of a report by the General Inspectorate of Administration questioning his management.
Other searches in progress. Searches were also carried out at the homes of Mohamed Sifaoui and Cyril Karunagaran, the two leaders of the USEPPM, the association having received the most subsidies. These searches “Intervene in the context of the judicial information opened on May 4, 2023 on the counts of ’embezzlement of public funds’, ’embezzlement of public funds by negligence’, ‘breach of trust’ and ‘illegal taking of interests'”specifies a judicial source to franceinfo.
A damning report. Endowed at its launch with 2.5 million euros, the fund was set up in April 2021, after the assassination of Samuel Paty, and aimed to finance associations defending “the values of the Republic” by providing, on social networks, “counter-discourses” to radical Islam. But a report by the General Inspectorate of Administration had denounced, at the beginning of June, many “failures”both in the application process and then in the use of funds.