New investigation open against Martin Le Pen – for threats to judges

French authorities have launched a new investigation against Marin Le Pen, the leader of the right -wing National Rally Party, which was found guilty of embezzling funds from the European Parliament a day earlier.

This time Le Pen is suspected of « threats to judges », French media reported, citing a court source.

« A new investigation has been launched following threats to Judges of the Paris Criminal Court who sentenced Marine Le Pen on Monday to a five -year ban on election, with an instantaneous effect, » media reported.

The day earlier, the High Council of Judges announced that threats had been made to the judges chairing Le Pen’s case after its verdict.

The office of the first president of the Court of Appeal Jacques Bullard reported on social media about « personal attacks on three council judges ».

Then, French Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin called the threats to the judges unacceptable, and Prime Minister François Bayru said it was impossible to criticize court decisions.

A Paris court sentenced Le Pen to four years in prison yesterday, two of which were conditional, in the case of embezzlement of the European Parliament. The politician will not go to jail and will serve two years at home with an electronic bracelet. She was ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 euros.

In addition, Le Pen will not be able to run for any electoral office for the next five years, which means he will not run for French president in 2027.

According to a study published by Journal du Dimanche, 37 percent of respondents were ready to vote for the politician in the first round of elections, leading among all other potential candidates. Le Pen has run for president three times. In 2012 he lost in the first round of François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. She succeeded in the second round in 2017 and 2022, but twice lost to Emmanuel Macron with a slight difference.