House search with left-wing French leader: 'Political attack'

paris - At the left-wing French party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a search was made on Tuesday. The founder and foreman of La France insoumise (LFI- Insurgent France) responded furiously via social media to the eight agents in his home. He said that house searches were also carried out at other people at the LFI. According to Mélenchon, it is a political maneuver of the government.

According to French media, the searches were conducted for two investigations: one to improper or fraudulent use of money intended for MEPs, the second to irregularities in the financing of the LFI election campaign.

In the first round of the presidential elections last year, the left-radical Mélenchon got almost a fifth of the voters (19.6 percent) behind him. That was much more than the former vanguard of the left in France, the Parti Socialiste (PS). The presidential candidate of the PS, Benoît Hamon, received only 6.3 percent.