PARIS — McDonald’s French headquarters have been raided by financial investigators, the latest salvo in a campaign by President François Hollande’s government to make multinational corporations pay more in taxes.

A police official, who could not be named under departmental policy, said Thursday that documents were removed during the raid on May 18. McDonald’s confirmed the search and said in a statement that it was “cooperating fully with the authorities on this matter.” The company did not respond to requests for additional comment.

As was the case in a raid on Google’s French headquarters on Tuesday, the police are investigating claims that McDonald’s deliberately manipulated its corporate accounts to understate its French revenue and profits and in that way reduce its tax liability.

Claims of tax avoidance by multinational corporations have pitted European countries against one another, and prompted European Union officials to investigate whether some of the bloc’s members are dangling unfair tax inducements to attract companies. One of those European Union inquiries, begun in December, is examining whether Luxembourg granted McDonald’s overly generous tax breaks.