FILE PHOTO: Member of parliament Jean-Luc Melenchon of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) political party attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, July 12, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - An investigation into alleged misuse of European parliamentary funds by members of a number of French political parties has been extended to include far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
The preliminary investigation - already targeting members of France's centrist MoDem party, conservative party The Republicans, and the Socialist party - was opened after a member of Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front asked the Paris prosecutor to look into the issue.
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