Le Pen Denies Any Sense She Might Have Committed a Crime over EU Funds

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has run for president three times, told a court on Tuesday that she did not believe she had committed any crime when her party hired European Parliament (EP) aides since 2004.

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Paris (EFE).- The leader of the ultra-right French Marine Le Pen acknowledged this Tuesday, at the opening of the appeal trial for the illegal financing of her party from European Parliament funds, which she could commit a crime, but said she was never aware of having committed it. "If any crime has been committed, we did not have the feeling of committing it", said Le Pen, sentenced in the first instance to four years in prison, two exempt from…

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Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French National Rally (RN) party, said during her appeal hearing on Thursday that she was unaware of any breach of the law in the case of embezzlement of European Union funds, AFP reports. I was not aware "that I had broken the law even in the slightest when we hired our assistants in 2004, 2009 and 2014," she said during the hearing. "However, if there was any wrongdoing, the European Parliament did not draw our…

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Marine Le Pen maintains her innocence in the EU funds embezzlement case and says she broke no law. However, a court in March handed her a severe sentence, including a ban on running for office and a fine of 100,000 euros.