The French court acknowledged the leader of the far right Marine Le Pen for guilty
31. Mar 2025 at 11:38 I Updated at 13:07
Le Pen was judged in the event of embezzlement of the EU finance.
Paris. French court in Paris on Monday acknowledged the leader of the far right Marine Le Penová guilty in the event of the European Union’s funds (EU). The court, along with her, sentenced another eight people.
Le Penová sentenced to four years of imprisonment, two years conditionally. However, it is uncertain whether they actually spend time in prison or whether he gets an electronic bracelet.
The Court of First Instance also prohibited LE Pen to apply for public office for five years, which means that he will not be able to stand in the presidential election in 2027.
The court prohibition is also valid in case of appeal against the judgment.
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office for Marine Le Pen proposed a five -year imprisonment if a five -year prohibition to perform or apply for a public office.
According to AP, the judgment may shake French politics and destroy the career of the leader of the far right. She had previously described the case politically motivated.
Le Pen and 24 other representatives of her National Association (RN) were accused of abusing the European Union funds. The investigation began in 2015 and concerns the employment contracts of alleged parliamentary parliamentary assistants RN from 2004 to 2016.
The Prosecutor’s Office claims that such employed assistants worked for the party exclusively outside the European Parliament, and many of them have never met the MEPs under which they fell or even stepped into the European Parliament building.
The fictitious jobs were reportedly employed, for example, by a security guard, secretary and head of the Le Penova office.
LE Pen (56) and other co -defending during the nine -week trial rejected their guilt.
The French politician was in the presidential elections in 2017 and 2022 a counter -candidate President Emmanuel Macron And the election support of her party has grown in recent years.
