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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jon Henley in Paris

Police raid headquarters of French far-right National Rally party

Jordan Bardella sitting at a table
Jordan Bardella called the operation ‘a serious attack on pluralism and democratic choice’. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images

Police have raided the headquarters of France’s far-right National Rally (RN) and seized documents as part of an investigation into alleged illegal campaign financing that was denounced by the party’s leader, Jordan Bardella, as “a harassment campaign”.

The raid came a day after EU financial prosecutors in Brussels said they had launched a separate investigation into the alleged misuse of €4.3m by the former far-right Identity & Democracy (ID) group in the European parliament, which included the RN.

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