US EditionMarine Le Pen Trial Will Boost the French Right
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The appeal proceedings of the National Front, now the National Rally, and of several of its officials, including Marine Le Pen, who were prosecuted for misappropriation of European public funds, entered on Thursday 15 January with the hearing of the representative of the European Parliament, a civil party. At first instance, its damage was estimated at 4.4 million euros. At the helm, the Director General of Finance of the institution responded t…
First day of debates at the Le Pen trial on appeal in the case of alleged fictitious jobs of European parliamentary assistants, on 15 January. At the helm, the Director General of Finance of the European Parliament atomised the practices of the Lepenist party. As for Fernand Le Rachinel, Jean-Marie Le Pen's old road companion, he sank live and acknowledged the existence of a system where "everything was decided by the president to put his staff …
Like the criminal court in the first trial, the Paris Court of Appeal was again seized of a procedural question which must determine the financial amount of the offence charged to the National Rally in the case of the party's European parliamentary assistants.
On Wednesday 14 January, the appeal trial of Marine Le Pen and members of his party in the European Parliamentary Assistants case was held on its second day of hearing.
Marine Le Pen trial will boost the French Right
To be successful in politics is a question not just of talent but of circumstances. History is written by those who seize opportunities, and then have the talent and tenacity to hold onto power. We do not know yet whether Marine Le Pen will be able to run in the French presidential elections next year. The hearings in the appeals court over her European Parliament embezzlement case started this week, with the verdict expected in the summer. It w…
The court could withdraw from the file several contracts for which the leader of the RN had been sentenced at first instance. His lawyer already sees it as a first small victory, brushing the new judge in the direction of the hair.
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