Jean-Christophe Lagarde placed in police custody in the case of the false accusations against Corbière and Garrido – archyde

New legal twist in the case concerning the false accusations against Alexis Corbière and Raquel Garrido. According to our information, Jean-Christophe Lagarde was placed in police custody this Wednesday morning after being arrested at his home. This police custody comes within the framework of the investigation opened on June 29 and entrusted to the BRDP, confirms the Paris prosecutor’s office. The former UDI deputy, beaten in the last legislative elections by Raquel Garrido, is the subject of a complaint for “breach of trust” filed at the end of June by the journalist from Point Aziz Zemouri, author of the article which implicated the couple of LFI deputies before being withdrawn. The complaint was filed against the president of the UDI and a former territorial intelligence policeman from the department, member of the Vigi police union, Anouar Bouhadjela, known as Noam Anouar. The latter, whom Aziz Zemouri presents as the source of the false accusations against the two elected officials, was also placed in police custody. Just like a third man, collaborator of Jean-Christophe Lagarde. In his complaint, the journalist from Le Point, who claims to be the victim of political manipulation, implicates the outgoing deputy by arguing that at the outbreak of the controversy, this the latter had posted on Twitter “comments” that the journalist had “only made to” the police officer on the alleged blocking of the article. He assures that Noam Anouar, “who would be seconded to the town hall of Drancy”, whose mayor is the wife of Mr. Lagarde, contacted him at the end of May to put him in touch with a woman claiming to be the housekeeper, undeclared and without papers, of the couple of LFI deputies. An incriminating tweet The journalist claims that his informant called him “around the second round of the legislative elections” to ask him “if the article was ready to appear before the second round”. He replied that the article was “blocked at the level of the newspaper’s management”. Aziz Zemouri has since specified that he has not yet written anything at this time. Raquel Garrido, 48, was elected deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis against the president of the UDI Jean-Christophe Lagarde in the second round of legislative elections on June 19. In his complaint, Mr. Zemouri implicates Mr. Lagarde, arguing that at the outbreak of the controversy, the latter had tweeted “comments” that the journalist had “only made to” the police officer on the alleged blocking of the article. The article in question published on the Point website accused the couple of LFI deputies of having exploited an undocumented housekeeper at their home in Bagnolet, which they had immediately firmly denied: “Everything is fake,” they protested. Very rare fact, the article had been withdrawn the next day and the director of Point Etienne Gernelle had recognized “errors and breaches of caution”, in a message on Twitter and on the site of the weekly. “Satisfied” that the investigation is progressing, MP LFI Raquel Garrido, interviewed this Wednesday morning on BFMTV, wants “the investigation to go to the end. I hope that all this will not lead to a result where nothing will be proven. I have confidence in the investigation service, but I remind you that my family has suffered a lot from these extremely serious accusations. As much as the political controversy can be lively and I accept it, as much in this case it was serious manipulation which was only intended to prevent me from being elected”.