Accused of having exploited an undocumented cleaning lady, the couple formed by Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière, figures of Insubordinate France, are in a media storm. At the origin of this whirlwind, the work of a journalist who is controversial.
Who is behind the serious accusations against the couple from La France Insoumise formed by Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière? Information from the journalist Point Aziz Zemouri, who ensures that the two politicians employed until recently an undocumented cleaning lady subjected to a hellish pace, are contradicted by the main interested parties in the first place but not only. If the duo of politicians has often been controversial, the reporter is not unanimous either.
On June 22, 2022, Le Point unveiled its journalist’s investigation into the undocumented employee of Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière of the two elected officials – re-elected – from Seine-Saint-Denis. During a police check in Paris in May, the housekeeper, a 36-year-old Algerian, had to justify her administrative situation while walking the couple’s daughter, who has three children. “Without a residence permit, she was only able to present her Algerian passport.“, we read on the site of the weekly. On Twitter, the reporter of the Point revealed exchanges of SMS between Raquel Garrido and the one who would be his employee, concerning the remuneration of the latter.
The Garrido-Corbière couple, who have been married since 2000 and have three children, contested all the charges in a press release and instructed their lawyer to file a complaint.
If the media frenzy was rapid, it is however the subject of questions. The philosopher Raphaël Enthoven, little known for his sympathy for LFI members, remains on his guard: “In the absence of additional evidence, we have no reason not to believe Alexis Corbiere and Raquel Garrido when they deny the article in the Point who accuses them of slavery. I’m deleting any tweets about it, pending more info.“
Among the people who dismantled the information of Aziz Zemouri, a user that Raquel Garrido herself retweeted: “nain_portekoi”. If his name makes you laugh, he analyzed the screenshots that the journalist from Le Point broadcast: “the image of the so-called SMS is a bad photomontage. When it is passed through analysis software, all the lights are red. We can deduce that ALL the report is bogus. Cheer Point.”
Aziz Zemouri, ex-hypokhâgneux and graduate of the Sorbonne Paris-IV, is a journalist at Point for nearly twenty-five years. We owe him in particular the polemical book Should Tariq Ramadan be silenced? published by L’Archipel. He was also sentenced for defamation with the weekly Point for calling actress Sand Van Roy a “call girl”, who accused filmmaker Luc Besson of rape and sexual assault. The actress, for her part, faced a name place in this case. The former Belgian-Dutch model has since turned to Belgian justice to continue her legal proceedings.
On Twitter, journalist Aziz Zemouri recently reacted to the development of this Corbière-Garrido-Gate: “Those who appear publiqt (sic) as defenders of the widow and the orphan are ontologiqt (sic) irreproachable. A ‘journalist of the Express’ in reality a militant of the republican printps defends Raquel Garrido and Alexis Corbière. To justify modern slavery. All is said.“
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