Paris – The Paris Court is expected to deliver judgment Monday in The case of the embezzlement This could rip off French politics and turn on a distant right leader Marine Le Pen Career.
Le Pencil and 24 more officials from her national rating the accused are that they used the money For the parliament of the European Union, assistants for the payment of staff who worked for the party between 2004. and 2016, in breach of regulations from the 27-nation block. Le pencil and its co-financed denies injustices.
The largest concern for Le Pen is that the court can declare inappropriate for the “with immediate effect” candidate – even if they complain. This could be prevented from running for president 2027. years. She described such a scenario as “political death.”
The Constitutional Council ruled on Friday, in a separate case, which sentenced the sentence immediately.
With so many accused, the verdict could last for a few hours for the main judge to read, which means Le Pencil cannot find out her destiny immediately when proceedings begin. If he finds his fault, Le Pen and her co-financed also faced in prison for up to 10 years – the judgment they could appeal. That would lead to another trial.
Le Pen (56) launched the President Emmanuel Macron in the Presidential Elections 2017. and 2022, and the election support of her party increased in recent years.
During the trial of the ninedece that occurred at the end of 2024. years, she claimed that the inapplicability “to have the effect will deprive me of being a presidential candidate” and the immigration of her supporters.
“There are 11 million people who voted for the movement I represented. So tomorrow would potentially, millions and millions of French people saw that they were deprived of candidates in the elections,” said the panel of three judges.
Le pencil denied the accusations, was in the forefront of “System” for siphonics from the EU’s money to use its party, which led since 2011. until 2021. years.
Instead, it argued that it was acceptable to adapt the work of helpers, which the European Parliament paid the needs of the legislator, including some very political work related to the party, which was called the National Front At that time.
As he testified, Le Pen told the Court: “I absolutely don’t feel I committed the slightest irregularity, the smallest illegal move.”
The hearings showed that some money was used to pay for Le Pen’s bodyguard – who used to be her father Bodyguard – as well as her personal assistant.
The prosecutors requested the court to declare the guilt of Le Pen, looking for a two-year prison sentence and a five-year unselfishness period.
Le pencil said he felt that they were “interested only” in preventing themselves from running for president.
Prosecutors also requested a guilty verdict for all other co-financing, including different sentences in prison, and for the party for the party 2 million euros (2.2 million dollars).
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2025-03-31 08:12:00
