Marine Le Pen was convicted of making money and is now It was officially prevented from applying for the French presidency for 2027.
Bloomberg says that the Criminal Court in Paris considered that the leader of the National Restructuring was guilty of the deviation of millions of euros in European funds to financial activities related to its local agenda.
A judgment on a loup between Two years in prison, and two others in the suspended sentence The first two can be fulfilled by using an electronic bracelet. They still have to A fine of 100,000 euros.
To punishment Block participation in the elections for a period of five yearsWhich, in practice, prevents her from running for the upcoming presidential presidency.
Marine Le Pen, 56, leads the 2027 presidential polls, and has already advanced that this will be her third and last nomination.
The court estimated that the total damage was about 2.9 million euros of a scheme that caused “the assumption of controlling the people who actually worked in the extreme right party.”
Among the defendants in this operation are eleven members of the European Parliament, or former deputies on the National Front, such as the mayor of Perbinian Luoiot and the father of Marine Le Pen, who died on January 7, 2025, but also twelve people worked as parliamentarians, including Leban’s sister Yan LL.
Judge Benedic de Barthoyes said: “The nine MEPS and twelve assistants considered a guilty signed” fake contracts “that were part of a” system “suspended.
“Investigations also showed that it was not administrative errors, but the allocation through a system was created to reduce the party’s costs,” the judge continued before explaining that the plan was not “unifying the work of the assistants, but rather to unify the budgets of deputies.”
Upon his arrival at the court, Le Pen remained silent, although he already mentioned that the prosecutors intend to “their political death”, claiming that the case is a conspiracy to preserve power – a common argument to Donald Trump or other neglected populists in the court.
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