 He was also in charge of the first case involving Scientology in France.He started a political career with his 2002 election as a member of the French Parliament Assemblée Nationale (representing the Rhône as a member of Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).In December 2005, Georges Fenech was a member of the Parliamentary Commission of Enquiry about the Outreau trial (a judicial disaster with innocent men and women being held for years in jail on unfounded suspicions), which had been called by President Jacques Chirac in order to help prevent a recurrence of this situation through alterations in France's legal system.