Request for the waiver of the immunity of Jérôme Lavrilleux

The European Parliament decided to waive the immunity of Jérôme LAVRILLEUX (EPP, FR).

Parliament recalled that the Chief Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal has requested the waiver of immunity of Jérôme Lavrilleux, Member of the European Parliament, in connection with an ongoing judicial investigation into charges of forgery, use of forged documents, breach of trust, attempted fraud and complicity in and concealment of those offences, illegal financing of an election campaign and concealment of and complicity in that offence.

Given that the alleged charges are not related to the position of Jérôme Lavrilleux as a Member of the European Parliament and arise from his former position as a deputy campaign director in the last presidential election in France, Parliament considered that the prosecution does not concern opinions expressed or votes cast by him as a Member of the European Parliament and that it has found no evidence of fumus persecutionis.

The European Parliament therefore waived the immunity of Jérôme Lavrilleux.