National Rally president Jordan Bardella called the headquarters raid a "harassment operation" amid investigations into illegal campaign financing.

The authorities said they were investigating whether the nationalist, anti-immigrant party broke France’s campaign-finance rules.

French police raided the headquarters of far-right party National Rally on Wednesday, seizing documents and accounting records, the party's leader said, as part of a campaign finance inquiry. Prosecutors are investigating allegations of illegal financing of Marine Le Pen’s 2022 presidential bid,