Mohamed Sifaoui is sworn in before the commission of inquiry on Thursday June 15, 2023. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
LE FIGARO INFO – Salary advances, luxury mutual … The journalist “expert in radical Islam” has cost the association, financed by public funds, much more than his salary recognized under oath before the senators.
Heard by the commission of inquiry on Thursday, Mohamed Sifaoui, by his repeated provocations, almost got rid of the nerves of the senators. So much so that they did not pick up a crucial point in his statement, which nevertheless launched “the case“: his salary, fed by the Marianne fund. Potentially at stake: the alleged embezzlement of public funds intended for the fight against cyber-jihadism, given that its productions of “Republican counter-riposte» on social networks have been deemed very insufficient by the General Inspectorate of Administration.
The former journalist was employed by the USEPPM, an association where he held the position of director of operations for the project to fight against cyber-jihadism financed by the Marianne Fund. This fund was launched in 2021 by Marlène Schiappa after the assassination of Samuel Paty. Facing the senators, Mohamed Sifaoui declared under oath that he had been an employee “over twelve months” to the height of “43,000 euros and dust…
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