Rebellious MP Sébastien Delogu searched in Marseille

The home and parliamentary office of the rebellious MP Sébastien Delogu were searched by the financial brigade on the morning of Thursday, May 15. The Marseille elected official told Marsactu that he was being targeted for alleged acts of "receiving stolen documents."

The Marseille public prosecutor's office specified that these searches are taking place "as part of a preliminary investigation opened in October 2024 for theft, receiving stolen goods, endangering privacy through public communication online and breaching the secrecy of correspondence."

According to the testimony of the MP's relatives to AFP, this action is linked to a referral made by the parliamentarian eight months earlier. In September 2024, Sébastien Delogu and Manuel Bompard, also a rebellious Marseille MP , referred the matter to the prosecutor under Article 40 regarding the cleaning company Laser Propreté, at the center of a social conflict affecting the cleaning of the Marseille metro and Saint-Charles station.

Eight months later, when these searches were announced, Sébastien Delogu confided that he found it "unacceptable that the courts would search me for receiving stolen documents when I was reporting serious facts to the courts." According to relatives, one of the people targeted by this report then filed a complaint for receiving stolen documents, and it was in this context that the searches were carried out, with the police seeking to recover these documents. The prosecutor's office confirmed the complaint but not the link between the two cases.

On social media, the rebels did not fail to react, starting with Manuel Bompard, co-author of the complaint against Laser propreté. The national coordinator of LFI denounced "targeted harassment" and "intimidation campaigns against rebel MPs" and recalled "that in France there is a law protecting whistleblowers which provides legal protection in particular to people who report violations within a company." It's "the world upside down!" Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed.