US EditionLe Pen's appeal trial: Far-right ex-assistants struggle to justify their jobs
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On Wednesday before the Court of Appeal, Wallerand de Saint-Just admitted simple "administrative errors", convinced that no one had "the slightest intention to commit, or conscience to commit, a criminal offence".
The ex-treasurer and the far-right party accountant largely minimized their role in the case of European parliamentary assistants, on Wednesday before the Paris Court of Appeal.
HEARING REPORT - The former treasurer of the party is put in difficulty by documents which could accredit the thesis of a fraudulent system to the detriment of the European Parliament.
At the appeal trial of the National Rally, whose name before 2018 was Front National, Wallerand de Saint-Just, former treasurer, hardly defends himself against accusations of embezzlement of funds
Wallerand de Saint-Just had to justify himself on his reply to a Euro MP who, in 2014, was concerned about the risk that the party might be accused of using his assistants in the European Parliament. "I think Marine knows all this," he wrote.
The treasurer of the FN (now RN), Wallerand de Saint-Just, was at the helm this Wednesday afternoon. His reply to an email denouncing fictitious jobs concerning the assistants of MEPs was at the center of the debate.
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