During three hours of grilling by a Senate committee, the minister for the social economy and associations, Marlène Schiappa, denied Wednesday that she had favoured the main beneficiary of the "Marianne Fund" an entity she helped set up in the spring of 2021.
As Minister for Citizenship, Schiappa launched the fund six months after the assassination of Samuel Paty, a teacher who was beheaded by a radical Islamist.
