After having implicated Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido, “the point” apologizes

The weekly withdrew, Thursday, an article published on their website, which accused the couple of LFI deputies in Seine-Saint-Denis of exploiting an undocumented cleaning lady.

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Thursday, June 23, Raquel Garrido opened the door of his apartment in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis) and found itself in front of a stranger. “Well, well you live there,” said the man, turning his heels. The deputy La France Insoumise (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis continued it: “He told me that he was a journalist, explains the elected official. It is crazy, as what happens to us since yesterday.”

“Yesterday” dates back to Wednesday June 22, shortly before 3 p.m., when the weekly Le Point site puts an investigation by the specialist Maison de Police, Aziz Zemouri online. In this long article, the journalist assures that the couple formed by M Me Garrido and Alexis Corbière, also pillar of LFI and deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, employs a 36-year-old Algerian like ” cleaning without a residence permit and subject to hellish rates “.

The young woman would have been checked by the police in the May, when she walked “the youngest of the couple, who has three children”. Problem: neither the Paris prosecutor’s office nor the police prefecture (PP) of Paris have the slightest procedure for clandestine stay, a real anomaly, taking into account the notoriety of the couple. “This kind of reserved business, it usually goes up extremely quickly. There, nothing”, observed, Wednesday, a police officer of the PP.

“of the big anything”

The article, however, still quotes several sentences presented as extracts from SMS exchanges between Mrs. Garrido and her alleged housekeeper, who claims her salary to her: “We put a roof on your head, we Make work so either you are grateful, or I take someone else now stop. “The couple of” rebellious “, specifies the point, would have promised papers to the young woman against her docility and would have A pied-à-terre in Paris, where her three children would be educated, suggesting an intention to bypass the school card.

Discovering the article, Raquel Garrido says it falls from the naked. Especially since the day before the publication, Tuesday, June 21, at 5:52 p.m., she received an SMS shipped from the personal email address of Aziz Zemouri, who questioned her exclusively about a possible intervention on his part in a Regularization procedure. Conclusion of the following conversation, by text: “Great anything.”

In a press release published a few hours after the article was published, she and her companion firmly refute the allegations of the weekly. “And we must justify ourselves on aspects that only look at our family,” said M Me garrid. The guard of “the last little”? Ensured by the father of the elected official, who came specially from Chile in April and March, then by his mother. Children educated in Paris? The youngest, aged 9, is in Bagnolet; La Benjamine, 19, works in catering in Paris; The elder, 22, lives most often in Marseille, where she takes correspondence courses. As for the Parisian apartment of the couple, in the 12 e arrondissement, the family left it in 2017, after a controversy over the advantageous conditions in which they would have occupied these 80 square meters belonging to the Parc de la Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris (RIVP).

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