The Era of the People association, which notably ensured the logistics of the meetings of the leader of La France insoumise in the presidential election of 2017, had been indicted for “illegal loan of labor” in March 2021.
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The association L’Ere du peuple, responsible for ensuring the logistics of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign during the 2017 presidential election, was indicted on February 3 for “false”, “use of false “, “fraud” and “aggravated fraud attempt”, learned franceinfo from a judicial source, Wednesday March 23, confirming information from Mediapart.
Initially, the Parisian investigating judges had only indicted the association in March 2021 for “illegal loan of labor” and had granted it the more favorable status of assisted witness for the main offenses of the investigation into suspicions of fraud and overcharging.
In this case, a judicial investigation had been opened in the Paris court in November 2018 on the use of public funds during the last campaign of the leader of the Insoumis. On September 22, the insubordinate French deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis, Bastien Lachaud, who was then treasurer of the association during the 2017 presidential campaign, was indicted for “illegal loan of labor “, “fake”, “scam” and “attempted scam” in this survey.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party then spoke of a “empty investigation, artificially kept alive.”
“Basically, the association L’Ere du peuple is criticized for “having overcharged for campaign services with the aim of enriching themselves”then explained the political party, considering that it is an accusation “totally wacky”.