EU Prosecutors Raid Firms Linked to Rassemblement National as Court Orders Retrial for Dany Leprince

Overview

• On Tuesday investigators from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office carried out searches in France, Spain, Italy and Belgium in an inquiry opened in July 2025 into roughly €4.3 million allegedly improperly spent by the former Identité et Démocratie group.
• Media reporting says investigators are examining large payments and contracts—near €3.6 million—to firms long linked to the Rassemblement national, including e‑Politic and Unanime/Europacomm, some awarded without public tenders.
• The RN and its president Jordan Bardella have denied wrongdoing on social media while the anti‑corruption group Anticor filed a complaint asking a judge to probe Bardella over an alleged fictitious European parliamentary assistant post.
• On Thursday the Cour de révision annulled Dany Leprince’s 1997 conviction for a 1994 quadruple murder, saying two pieces of evidence used at the original trial were weakened by newly identified elements and ordering a retrial before the assize court in Angers.
• Taken together the cases underline wider consequences: the EPPO probe could have political effects ahead of a July 7 appeal in a related RN assistants case, and the Leprince decision is a rare judicial revision that may reopen factual and human questions about a high‑profile crime.