Police search at European Parliament over suspected ‘Russian interference’

The raids took place less than two weeks before Europe-wide polls on June 6-9 to elect a new EU parliament.

European flags in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

Police carried out searches at the residence of an employee of the European Parliament and at his office in the parliament’s building in Brussels over suspected Russian interference, Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office has said.

Prosecutors said in a statement that the suspect’s office in Strasbourg, where the EU Parliament’s headquarters are located in France, was also searched in partnership with the EU’s judicial co-operation agency, Eurojust, and French judicial authorities.