According to a statement from National Financial Prosecutor Pascal Prache, the failed raid was conducted within a probe linked to contracts over the organization of memorial ceremonies. French presidency staff told investigators they couldn\u2019t search the Elys\u00e9e Palace because the premises are covered by presidential immunity, the statement said.<\/p>\n
The investigators had been looking into allegations of favoritism, corruption, influence peddling and conflict of interest in relation to the staging of memorial ceremonies at the Panth\u00e9on in Paris, per the prosecutor\u2019s statement. The Panth\u00e9on mausoleum holds the remains of France\u2019s great men and women, and several illustrious figures such as French-American singer Josephine Baker have been inducted in recent years.<\/p>\n
According to French newspaper Le Canard Enchain\u00e9, which was the first to report on the attempted raid at the Elys\u00e9e Palace, investigators were looking into why a firm called Shortcut Events had been repeatedly given contracts to organize ceremonies in the Pantheon. According to the newspaper, each ceremony cost \u20ac2 million.<\/p>\n
Investigators are reportedly looking into links between Shortcut Events and the Centre for National Monuments, a French institution that manages the country\u2019s vast historical heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a statement from National Financial Prosecutor Pascal Prache, the failed raid was conducted within a probe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[555,5222,3236,36,5,557],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-conflict","tag-conflict-of-interest","tag-corruption","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-france","tag-french-eu-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}