French authorities raid far-right National Rally party HQ in campaign finance probe

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French authorities raid far-right National Rally party HQ in campaign finance probe  Police and judges raided France's far-right National Rally (RN) headquarters as part of an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/09/french-authorities-raid-far-right-national-rally-party-headquarters  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00French authorities raided the headquarters of the far-right National Rally Party on Wednesday

00:05as part of a probe into alleged violations of campaign finance laws.

00:10The Paris Prosecutor's Office said the investigation is examining whether the party

00:14used illegal loans to finance its campaigns between 2020 and 2024.

00:19The investigation concerns possible acts of money laundering and the use of forged documents

00:24during their 2022 presidential and 2024 European election races.

00:28The National Rally's president, Jordan Bardella, called the action a new harassment campaign.

00:35He said armed forces stormed the party building on Wednesday morning

00:38and seized emails, documents and accounting data.

00:41The party has surged in popularity in recent years,

00:44becoming France's largest single parliamentary party.

00:48The raid comes about three months after the party's co-founder and de facto leader,

00:52Marine Le Pen and other officials were convicted of embezzling EU funds.

00:58They talked about two months after the party's new

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