Mélenchon accuses Netanyahu of interfering in French elections

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a leading presidential candidate in France, has pointedly accused Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu of meddling in French elections.
At a conference with HEC Paris students, the LFI de facto leader alleged that Netanyahu “paid people” to carry out smear campaigns against his party’s candidates in Toulouse, Marseille, and Roubaix.
“Foreign interference is becoming increasingly widespread, and it goes unpunished,” Mélenchon said, decrying the lack of sanctions for election tampering.
French investigators recently linked an Israeli firm to an intrusion in local elections in March, with suspicion that such actors remain active ahead of the presidential elect...