French court investigates financing of Macron’s 2017 and 2022 election campaign

The French judiciary has launched an investigation into the election campaigns of President Emmanuel Macron in 2017 and 2022. The public prosecutor’s office confirms this after the newspaper ‘Le Parisien’ already reported on the investigation on Thursday. According to the Paris financial prosecutor’s office, it is being investigated whether Macron has improperly benefited from the services of the American consultancy firm McKinsey.

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