A new stink bomb has been released in the midst of the presidential campaign
Mediapart and Marianne reveal that a former advisor to Marine Le Pen was allegedly paid, during the 2012 presidential campaign, through a fictitious contract at the office of the National Front’s chosen accountant, Nicolas Crochet.
Gaël Nofri, now a municipal councilor in Nice and a former member of the FN/RBM, who has since moved through other groups before landing in the municipal majority, claims he never worked at this office.
The issue should be viewed in the context of fictitious employment cases that have often made headlines recently.
This elected official from Nice, who left the ranks of the Rassemblement Bleu Marine in 2014 to join Debout la France, and later the Republicans, asserts that the National Front first tried to have him paid as a European parliamentary assistant before transferring him to the office of the FN’s accountant.
Why are these events, which supposedly happened in 2012, coming out now?
Gaël Nofri stated that exposing the “case” and meeting with investigators in September 2014 to “provide them with information” was, for him, a civic duty.
Is this investigative journalism or a targeted action? The question remains, and time will tell.
