French Far-Right Party HQ Raided by Police Over Campaign Funding

The offices housing the National Rally headquarters in Paris on July 9.Photographer: Thomas Samson/Getty Images

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By Gaspard Sebag

July 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM EDT

Updated on

July 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM EDT

French police raided the headquarters of the far-right National Rally on Wednesday in an investigation into suspicions of unlawful funding of its latest presidential campaign, a move the party’s head immediately branded as “harassment.”

Paris prosecutors said in a statement that the probe also concerns financing for the subsequent legislative elections in 2022 and for the National Rally’s fielding of candidates in the 2024 European Parliament ballot.