The leader of the RN Marine Le Pen and eight MEP have been judged to be guilty of embezzlement of public funds. All elected officials, including the Le Pen Marine, were condemned to unhealthy.
The sentence will have ” immediate execution ”.
Marine Le Pen was sentenced to four years, two of which without a conditional with the possibility of electronic bracelet. The leader of the Rassemblement National is also declared incorrect for five years.
Marine Le Pen left the hearing room to the Court of Paris before the pronunciation of the sentence by the judges. The former Elysée candidate left the classroom before knowing the verdict together with the party partner Catherine Griset. He then left the court without saying a word. Le Figaro describes one le Pen ” visibly exasperated ” after the condemnation to inexcilization, but He still expects to know the duration of this ineligibility.
Everyone, for the Paris court, signed some ” fictitious contracts ”, in the framework of a real “system” of undue appropriation within the National Rassemblement: This is what was declared by the President of the Court, Bénédicte de Perthuis, on the day of the sentence. ” It was ascertained that all these people actually worked for the party, that their deputy (of reference) had not entrusted them with any task ” and that “they passed from one deputy to the other ”, specified the magistrate, adding: ” It was not about borrowing the work of the assistants but rather of mutualizing the resources of the deputies ”. De Perthuis then warned: ” that things are clear: nobody is tried for doing politics, it is not the theme. The question is to know whether the contracts have been performed or not. “Marine Le Pen ” has been at the center of this system, since 2009, with authority ”.
Marine Le Pen and 8 MEP have been considered guilty of embezzlement in the process on the assistants of the MEPs of the Rassemblement National at the European Parliament of Strasbourg. The accusation asked for 5 years, 3 of which with the conditional and the ineligibility with immediate effect, without waiting for the subsequent degrees of judgment.
The Paris Court believes that the case represented a 2.9 million euro fraud for the European taxpayer“making the European Parliament of the people who actually worked for the party” at national level and not at the EU level. Shortly after the opening of the hearing, this morning at 10:20, the Paris Court declared guilty appropriation 9 MEPs RN, including Le Pen, that today its political future is played. The twelve former parliamentary assistants present in court is also stated for receiving stolen goods. For the leader RN, the accusation asked for 5 years, 3 of which with the conditional and the ineligibility with immediate effect, without waiting for the subsequent degrees of judgment. In the classroom, at the Paris court, Marine Le Pen, dressed in blue, is sitting in the front row, alongside his former partner and vice -president of the party, Louis Aliot. The pronunciation of the sentences in the hall crowded with public and journalists should last at least two hours. ” It will be a little long ”, warned the president of the court, just before opening the hearing along the banks of the Seine. ” From the court there is no desire to keep the suspense but we will do as always, providing a number of explanations on the decisions taken “, he specified. The trial on the assistants of the RN deputies in Strasbourg lasted two months in the autumn and the sentence risks changing the political career of the leader daughter of the founder of the Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who disappeared at 96 years last January forever. The attitude that Marine Le Pen has chosen in recent weeks to lower the tension is that of the ostentation of serenity: “I don’t think about it at all – told Le Figaro a few days ago – fear does not overcome the danger”.
Putin and Orban’s solidarity
“Our observations in European capitals indicate that they absolutely do not hesitate to go beyond the boundaries of democracy during the political process”: so Vladimir’s spokesman PutinDmitri Peskov, commented on the trial of Marine Le Pen. This was reported by the Interfax agency, according to which Peskov said that Moscow “does not want to interfere in the internal affairs of France and never did it”, but said that, in his opinion, “Democratic standards are violated“As for Marine Le Pen and the presidential elections in Romania.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbanexpressed solidarity with the leader of the Rassemblement National (RN), Marine Le Pen, judged guilty of undue appropriation of public funds. “Je Suis Marine!“The prime minister wrote on X, echoing the slogan ‘Je Suis Charlie’ used to express solidarity with the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after the 2015 terrorist attack. ORBAN’s party, Fidesz plays together with the RN in the group of patriots at the European Parliament.