周三（10月21日），欧洲议会在斯特拉斯堡的会期第二天刚刚开始，警方进入路易丝·魏斯大楼四楼，那里设有“爱国者为欧洲”团体秘书长的办公室，该议会团体由法国国民联盟（RN）领导。调查人员搜查现场，寻找证据以支持对“认同与民主”（ID）团体涉嫌财务犯罪的怀疑，该团体由国民联盟领导，是2019年至2024年“爱国者为欧洲”的前身。
The second day of the European Parliament's session in Strasbourg had just begun on Wednesday, October 21, when police entered the fourth floor of the Louise-Weiss building, where the offices of the secretary general of the Patriots for Europe, a far-right parliamentary group led by France's Rassemblement National (RN), are located. Investigators searched the premises for evidence supporting suspicions of financial crimes involving Identity and Democracy (ID), the RN-led group that preceded Patriots from 2019 to 2024.
搜查由法国打击腐败及金融和税务犯罪中央办公室执行，周三中午由国民联盟在欧洲议会代表团团长、欧洲议会议员让-保罗·加罗在X平台发帖披露。一位接近调查的消息人士证实，搜查针对比利时人菲利普·克莱斯，他是极右翼佛拉芒利益党前成员，后成为国民联盟议会团体的关键行政人员。比利时警方也搜查了他在布鲁塞尔的办公室，布鲁塞尔是欧洲议会的另一所在地。联系克莱斯时，他未立即回应。他仍担任“爱国者为欧洲”秘书长，该团体主席由国民联盟主席若尔丹·巴德拉担任。
The search, carried out by France's Central Office for Combating Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses, was revealed at midday on Wednesday by the head of the RN delegation in the European Parliament, MEP Jean-Paul Garraud, in a post on X. A source close to the investigation confirmed that the raids targeted Belgian national Philip Claeys, a former member of the far-right Vlaams Belang party who became the key administrator for the RN's parliamentary groups. Belgian police also raided his offices in Brussels, the European Parliament's other seat. When contacted, Claeys did not immediately respond. He remains secretary general of Patriots, which is chaired by RN president Jordan Bardella.