US EditionFormer EU border agency chief joins French far-right RN party
- Former Frontex chief Leggeri announced his candidacy for the European Parliament with the far-right French party led by Marine Le Pen.
- Leggeri resigned as head of Frontex in 2022 over accusations of covering up abuses by Greek coast guards against migrants.
- Leggeri's campaign focus for the EU Parliament elections is on stricter immigration rules, aiming to combat the 'flood of migration.
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Fabrice Leggeri left Frontex following charges that the agency mistreated migrants at the EU's external borders.
Former EU border agency chief joins French far-right RN party
PARIS (Reuters) – The former director of the European Union’s border agency Frontext said he will run in the June European elections on the list of French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN). Fabrice Leggeri, who quit Frontext in 2022 after accusations that the body mistreated migrants on external EU frontiers, told French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche he would join RN leader Jordan Bardella on the party list in June. Leggeri said th…
Former EU border agency chief joins French far-right RN party
The former director of the European Union's border agency Frontext said he will run in the June European elections on the list of French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN). Read more at straitstimes.com.
Fabrice Leggeri led the operations of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency from 2015 to 2022. He resigned after complaints from associations and various protests. Meanwhile, the polls on the June vote are increasingly catastrophic for Macron.
Weakened by several investigations, Fabrice Leggeri, a senior official at the French Ministry of the Interior, had to leave the head of the agency in April 2022. He announced on Sunday that he would be in third place on Jordan Bardella's list in the European elections in June.
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