Marin Le Pen is playing against the political “witch hunt” at the Paris rally

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Marin Le Pen announced the conviction that he risked blocking her from the next presidential election as a “witch hunt” and promised to appeal against “defending democracy and the rule of law” because thousands rallied in Paris on Sunday in support of the side right leader.

Le Pen and her national party rassemblement were found guilty On Monday, EU EUR Parliament Fund, intended for Brussels staff, who worked in the France, about theft of 4.4 million euros.

It was released an immediate ban on elections for five years, as well as two years in prison, which is likely to be filed at home with an electronic bracelet, after which two additional years were rejected.

Le Pen told the crowd of fans who were concerned with the flag that the ruling is “not a court decision, but by a political decision”, which “prevented a single sovereign and indicate itself.”

Le Pen also sought to discharge allegations of other political parties that the pH sought to attack the French justice system, instead of calling this decision as undemocratic.

“We are the hottest defenders and the most ardent defenders of democracy and the rule of law,” said Le Pen, despite the evidence presented to the court that pH and their assistants deliberately abused the European Parliament.

The combat approach adopted by Le Pen in response to conviction means a break with its strategy in recent years to normalize the party and presenting it as a respectable political institutions in France.

The aggressive position of the pH against the ruling caused anger among the supporters, while the chief judge in the case was put under the police after the threats were against it.

Le Pen received a life -saving circle earlier this week, when the Court of Appeal stated that he would consider the case by 2026, it means that it will be able to run for the president in 2027, if it was cleared – the script, which is considered unlikely, given the evidence presented in the first case – or if the judges did not incur.

The Witch’s comment on Le Pena repeats the condemnation of US President Donald Trump about her sentence. On Friday, Trump stated that the conviction is “another example of European left -wing that use Lawfare to silence free speech”, in a report on his social platform.

Le Pen decided not to retreat and allow the successor, the head of the PN Party Jordan Bardel, to strengthen as an alternative candidate, instead of focusing on the fire on the defense of his election application.

Speaking at the rally, the brothel said that more than 10,000 supporters joined the gathering and that the sentence was a “direct attack on democracy and a millions of French people.”

He also promised to stay true to Le Pen. “She can count on me.

The participants of the rally, some of which were involved in the pH, also expressed outrage when Le Pen was banned from competing for the president in the next election.

Laurence, a former assistant store from the EUure-Tet-Lir department near Paris, said that “scandalous” that Le Pen could not run, adding that she had voted for her several times. “We want to change in this country,” she said.

The RN criticism caused the opposition from the entire political spectrum, and on Sunday politicians and politicians holding their own rallies.

At the rally on the outskirts of Paris, former Prime Minister and Central Renaissance leader Gabriel Atal He said that “the extreme was going to attack our judges and attack our institutions.” The central bloc “will never disqualify the decision of the justice system,” he added.

Prime Minister François Bayer said on the Le Parisien newspaper on Sunday that political protests against court decisions were “neither healthy nor desirable”, given the separation of powers in the French constitution.