The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office wants to shed light on the work of the CPF candidate in the presidential election between 2009 and 2014, when he was a parliamentary assistant.
Le Monde
The French Communist Party (PCF) candidate in the presidential election, Fabien Roussel, is aimed at a survey of fictitious job suspicions opened by the National Financial Procuratoration (PNF), according to information revealed by the Agence France-Presse, Friday, March 11th. In February, an article published by Mediapart had implicated the reality of his work as a parliamentary assistant, post that Mr. Roussel occupied for six years, between 2009 and 2014.
By gathering, in particular, the testimonies of former collaborators of the member Jean-Jacques Candelier and a registration of the member himself granting that the post held by Mr. Roussel was “not too clear”, the journalists of Mediapart wrote that Mr. Roussel had “not been able to produce the slightest material element to trace his parliamentary assistant activities for five years”. The investigation opened by the PNF was entrusted to the Central Office for the fight against corruption and financial and fiscal offenses (OCLCIFF).
After several media interventions to categorically deny having held a fictitious job, Mr. Roussel had published a series of testimonials and documents to support his version of a total, determining “terrain (…) commitment. “There is nothing” ghost “in this period of my life,” wrote the member in a text published on his campaign website and entitled Transparency on my work
” To be honest, it was not too net “
Two short testimonials from Mr. Candelier’s collaborators at that time had been published, as well as that of Dominique Ben, a trade unionist of the General Labor Confederation (CGT). The latter assured that he worked “on many files” with Mr. Roussel at the time. A working file where the names of the two men appear was also attached to the testimonials, including compiling documents on the exploitation of mine gas or privatization in The mining sector of the Pas-de-Calais . Several excerpts from Mr. Candelier’s Gazette are also presented, Mr. Roussel appearing on some MP’s move images.
In response to the explanations of Mr. Roussel, Mediapart had put online, the same day, a new article containing the recording of a telephone conversation, according to an anonymous source of journalists Pascale Pascariello and Antton Rouget, 2018. Mr. Candelier says, about his collaboration with Mr. Roussel:
“To be honest, it was not too clear. That’s why we did well stop (…). It’s always done. That’s why when I arrived , I was told: “1, 1, 1 (…), 1 for the federation [the Northern Federation], 1 for the Central [the Communist Party] and 1 for you [the member]”. “”