The veteran politician has also been barred from running for public office for five years over embezzlement charges.
A Paris court has sentenced French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen to a four-year jail term, half of which is without parole, in a case involving the embezzlement of EU funds for her National Rally (RN) party. Le Pen has also been barred from running for president in 2027.
The verdict on Monday is the culmination of an extended case, in which RN and several of its senior figures were accused of diverting money meant for the offices of European Parliament members towards the national party structure. Le Pen and eight MEPs were found guilty of running the scheme between 2004 and 2016.
The five-year ban on participating in elections, which was requested by the prosecution, comes into effect immediately regardless of any appeal process. The top French Сonstitutional Сourt ruled last week in an unrelated case that such a punishment was legal under the basic law.
The court has reportedly allowed Le Pen to serve half of her jail time under home arrest monitored by an ankle bracelet. Others found guilty in the case on Monday were sentenced to serve time in prison, with punishments varying between 12 months and three years.
RN president Jordan Bardella denounced the sentence on his X account, calling it “unjust” and amounting to an execution of French democracy.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has expressed support for Le Pen, posting “I am Marine” in French and tagging her account on X.
Le Pen stepped down from the RN party leadership in favour of Bardella in 2022, but remains the head of its faction in the National Assembly. Described as “far-right” by her detractors, she has accused the EU of mishandling illegal immigration and has criticized its support for Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, among other policies.
As part of the court’s decision, RN was sentenced to seizure of already-confiscated funds and a fine totalling €2 million ($2.2mn).
Marine Le Pen did not divert money.
She had as other politicians, parliamentary assistants paid by the EU to work for her party in the EU parliament in Stratsburg.
Marine Le Pen ( as other politicians) used them also in het party the RN. That is considered” illegal”
She did not benefit personnally from the so called ” embezzlement”.
There is no money involved. Only the salaries of parliament assistants that are asked to be re imbursed.
Political motivated. Considering the many cover up of financial scandals among the European Commission
Who else in the world has imprisoned all oppostion ? Hmm, maybe its Ukraine for one. Was it Brazil as well ?
Seems to be the same in any country run by dictators and in the background WEF aligned politicians.
This is what the Zionist do to those who oppose their WEF / WHO / NWO plans.
If you’re a politician who stands up for your nation’s sovereignty, you get targeted.
Jim Traficant and George Hanson in the U.S. are prime examples of this! Both men are now deceased, but what they have to say applies to Marine LePen…! The PTB will use any number of the thousands of laws to go after those who stand in opposition to the PTB and the J3w$!
Jim Traficant…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKydyiPvmZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCnHkjkJFOc
& George Hanson…
https://constitution.org/1-Corruption/ghansen/uwsadisclosure_prison.html
The Masonic / J3wi$h PTB which currently run the world will stop at nothing; assassinating Presidents, unjustly imprisoning members of the U.S. Congress, and assassinating Americans and others who call out the Talmudic corruptions.
If they can do these things to Congressional Members and Presidents, then one comes to understand that NO ONE IS SAFE FROM THESE TREACHEROUS & TREASONOUS BASTARDS WHO INFEST THE HIDDEN-HAND DEEP STATE!
Law fare at its dirtiest. This is how globalists win elections. And maybe start civil wars and revolutions, when people have had enough.
Notice the trend here?
Yes, all dictatorship government’s, start jailing all opposition.
A particular specialty of the socialists, Law-fare. Misappropriation possibly but certainly not embezzlement. Macron’s behaviour, similar to Biden’s, used a bent judge to take out his opponent.
The Nazis in Europe are flexing their muscles again. First Romania, now France: using the judiciary to carry out their nefarious activities