President of the Union of Democrats and Independents is targeted with a police officer stationed in Drancy by a complaint from a journalist from the “Point” for “breach of trust” following a false article, published at the end of June, implicating the couple of deputies LFI Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbiere.
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The president of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) Jean-Christophe Lagarde was taken into police custody on Wednesday September 7 morning as part of the investigation into the false accusations against Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, franceinfo learned on Wednesday September 7 with the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the Parisian.
In June, an investigation was opened for fraud after the wrongful questioning of the couple of deputies from La France insoumise (LFI) in an article in the Point finally removed. Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière had filed two complaints, one against X for forgery and use of forgery and identity theft, the other for defamation against the journalist author of the article, Aziz Zemouri, and the weekly.
Point had published an article online which unduly accused the couple of having exploited an undocumented cleaning lady, which the two elected officials had immediately denied.