The registered office of the National Rally of the Armed Police in Paris during the financial survey

The headquarters of the French Right’s National Day was attacked Wednesday morning in Paris in what its leader calls a spectacular and unprecedented “harassment”.

“Since 8:50 am this morning, the headquarters of the National Rally – including the offices of its leaders – has been the subject of a search carried out by around twenty police officers from the financial brigade, armed and carrying bulletproof vests, accompanied by two investigative judges,” said president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella.

“This spectacular and unprecedented operation is clearly part of a new harassment operation. It is a serious attack on pluralism and democratic change,” he added. “Never has an opposition party underwent such implacable attacks under the fifth republic.”

Prosecutors said they were investigating illegal financing allegations of the presidential candidacy of the party leader of the party, the European Parliament and French parliamentary campaigns, according to the Associated Press.

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Marine Le Pen, on the left, and national president of Rally Jordan Bardella during a political meeting on June 2, 2024 in Paris. (AP / Thomas Padilla)

“All the emails, documents and accounting files of the main opposition party have been seized, although we did not yet know the precise grievances that underlie them,” also said Bardella. “All we know is that all the files concerning the latest regional, presidential, legislative and European campaigns – that is to say all the party’s electoral activities – are now in the hands of the courts.”

The Paris Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release at the AP that research had been carried out at the National Rally headquarters, at the headquarters of unidentified companies and at the home of people who direct these companies.

The searches were caused by a judicial inquiry opened a year ago in a series of allegations, including fraud, money laundering and counterfeiting, said the prosecutor’s office.

The investigation aims to determine whether the presidential campaign in 2022 of Le Pen and the party campaigns for the European Parliament in 2024 and the French parliamentary elections in 2022 were funded by “illegal loans to individuals for the benefit of the party or national rally candidates”, according to the press release.

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A police officer leaves the national headquarters of the rally in Paris, in France, following the police raids on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. (AP / Michel Euler)

The survey also investigates the allegations that the National Rally has surfaced services or billed for fictitious services in order to artificially increase the amount of state aid provided for its electoral campaigns.

The authorities made a descent into the headquarters of the National Party after Le Pen – a finalist of the outgoing president Emmanuel Macron in 2022 – was found guilty of embezzlement in April. She and 24 other party officials have been accused of having used money for parliamentary aid of the European Union to pay in place the staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, violating the regulations of the 27 countries’ block.

The deputy for the Rallye National Laurent Jacobelli responds to journalists while the French police went down to the headquarters of the far -right party, entering documents and accounting files, said party leader on Wednesday July 9, 2025 in Paris. (AP / Michel Euler)

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The prosecutor’s office said that no one had been charged in the last case, the former Treasurer of the Wallerand Party in Saint-Just saying to journalists outside the seat “We did nothing wrong.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.