(AFP) French junior minister Marlene Schiappa, who made headlines this week for a clothed Playboy photoshoot, is at the centre of accusations of alleged misuse of cash from an anti-radicalism fund set up after the beheading of a teacher.
Schiappa, whose ministerial brief covers the social economy and associations, spearheaded the creation of a 2.5-million-euro ($2.7 million) fund in her previous job at the interior ministry.
It is meant to finance the fight [against] “separatism” after the 2020 killing of history teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist.
But journalists from broadcaster France 2 and weekly Marianne cast doubt last week on the work carried out by a Paris-based charity that was one of the biggest recipients of the public cash.
