Faced with so many repercussions, Point opened an internal investigationthe journalist was laid off and summoned to an interview prior to possible dismissal. But after saying “convinced of the truth of the facts“, Aziz Zemouri changed his tune. “Persuaded to have been manipulated“, he decided to file a complaint for breach of trust against former UDI deputy Jean-Christophe Lagarde and an ex-policeman. The complaint, of which AFP has taken note, was filed against Lagarde and a former territorial intelligence policeman, Anouar Bouhadjela, known as Noam Anouar, whom Aziz Zemouri presents as the source of the false accusations against the two elected officials.
In his complaint, he assures that the ex-policeman, “who would be seconded to the town hall of Drancy“, whose mayor is the wife of Jean-Christophe Lagarde, contacted him at the end of May to put him in touch with a woman claiming to be the undeclared and undocumented housekeeper of the couple of left-wing deputies. journalist claims that his informant called him “around the second round of the legislative” to ask him “whether the article was ready for publication before the second round“. He replied that the article was “blocked at the level of the direction of the newspaper“. Aziz Zemouri has since specified that he has not yet written anything at this time. Raquel Garrido, 48, was elected deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis against the president of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde in the second round of elections. legislative on June 19.
In his complaint, Aziz Zemouri implicates Jean-Christophe Lagarde by arguing that at the outbreak of the controversy, the latter had tweeted “remarks“that the journalist had”only held by” from the ex-policeman on the alleged blocking of the article. Lagarde’s tweet has since been deleted. Asked by AFP, Jean-Christophe Lagarde could not be reached immediately. In a video posted on his page Facebook, Noam Anouar categorically denied the accusations of the journalist from Point and be “the author of the conspiracy“aimed at the chosen two.”They try to make me the ideal culprit in the Corbière-Garrido case“, he regretted.