Just weeks before the start of the trial of 27 senior officials of the National Rally (RN) party – including its leader, Marine Le Pen – for misappropriation of European Parliament funds, the charges recently published by Release For the first time, they involved Jordan Bardella, the current president of the far-right group. The French newspaper published a preview of journalist Tristan Berteloot's book, Winning machineabout the rise of the ultra party, in which he claimed that Bardella would participate in the preparation of false documents to justify his work as an assistant to the European parliament.
“The allegations are false and defamatory. Neither the European Parliament nor the French courts have questioned the reality of my work. “No one will be fooled by this crude attempt to destabilize me,” Bardella reacted in a message on the X network.