US EditionFrench far-right leader Marine Le Pen appeals conviction in embezzlement trial
- Marine Le Pen and eleven others were convicted in an embezzlement trial on March 31 by a Paris court.
- The National Rally party had fictitiously employed assistants using European Parliament expenses, leading to the convictions.
- The court determined the assistants were actually working for the party, which was cash-strapped at the time of the events.
- Le Pen, who slammed the ruling as a 'political decision,' received a suspended jail term, a fine, and a five-year ban from elections.
- Le Pen and twelve of the accused have appealed, with a decision expected in summer 2026; Jordan Bardella may replace her.
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Le Pen is down but not out
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. On March 31, a political earthquake shook France: Far-right opposition politician Marine Le Pen was found guilty of embezzling €474,000 from the EU by employing four fake assistants in the European Parliament between 2009 and 2017, as well as of complicity in a wider scheme to embezzle €1.8 million in the same way. She was sentenced to four years in jail — …
No, Le Pen Was Not Railroaded | by Jan-Werner Mueller - Project Syndicate
Following French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s conviction on embezzlement charges and her five-year disqualification from holding elected office, even some impeccably liberal voices are worried that the judiciary has undermined France’s democracy. Their arguments do not withstand scrutiny.
Le Pen is out of office as departmental councillor and darkens his political future even further
The political and personal horizon of Marine Le Pen, founder of National Grouping (AN, extreme right), is getting darkened in a dangerous way for her intimate and political future. After ten years of trial, before European and French courts, Le Pen was sentenced by the Court of Paris, on Monday, 31 March, to four years in prison (two years in firm) and five years of disqualification, with immediate execution, plus a fine of 100,000 euros for emb…
The establishment and its media’s attack on populism is clearly seen with Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen is the most popular leader in France, yet the taxpayer-funded press corps ignores that salient detail while it smears her supporters as radicals amidst the lawfare campaign aimed at […] The post The establishment and its media’s attack on populism is clearly seen with Marine Le Pen first appeared on The Expose.
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