Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement, forbidden to run in the election of 2027 France

A French court found that Marine Le Pen is guilty on Monday in a case of embezzlement, with a penalty that prevented her from his five -year public position with an “immediate effect”.

The ruling prevents her from running for the presidency of the National National Assembly against immigration in 2027.

Also, the public prosecutors were sentenced to two years of detention at home with an electronic bracelet, with two other years’ suspension. In addition, Le Pen was fined 100,000 euros ($ 154,000 CDN).

The prison sentence or the fine will not be applied until its appeal is exhausted, but its ban for five years of running for positions immediately, through the so -called “temporary implementation” that the prosecutors request, and will be raised only if any appeal before the elections is supported. She keeps her parliamentary seat.

Le Pen, 56, ranked second to President Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, and has supported her electoral party in recent years. The National Assembly holds most of the seats in the National Assembly after its performance in the legislative elections for the past year, forcing Macron to build an alliance that rules outside his party.

Le Pen and officials of the party known as the National Front were accused of using funds allocated to the European Union parliamentary assistants to pay employees who worked in the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27 countries ’bases.

Judge Panditi de Bareth, who reads the ruling of a committee of three judges, said that Le Pen was “in the heart” of the plan. The judge said that while Le Pen and other accused participating themselves personally, the embezzlement was a “democratic transgression” that deceived Parliament and voters.

Le Pen shook her head again and again in a dispute where the conviction was read. “Incredible”, whispered at one point.

The judge also submitted rulings guilty to eight members or other former in his party, like it, previously held the position of European parliamentarians.

Lob between and other defendants can appeal, which will lead to another trial.

The right -wing politicians rule the ruling

During the nine -week trial that occurred in late 2024, Le Pen argued that the insecurity “will have an impact on depriving me that I am a candidate for the presidency” and depriving its supporters.

“There are 11 million people who voted in favor of the movement that I represent. So … it is possible that millions and millions of French themselves will see themselves deprived of their candidate in the elections,” said the three -judge committee.

This type of feelings was immediately addressed by its supporters inside and outside France.

The Italian politician has condemned the prominent right -wing Matteo Salvini and Hungary Prime Minister Victor Urban.

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The Kremlin also condemned the ruling in a statement.

Le Pen left the Hi Paris without stopping to speak to the journalists and ascended to a car she paid away.

The court also issued guilty rulings to 12 other people who held the position of parliamentarians in Loop.

If Le Pen is unable to run in 2027, her normal back will be Jordan Bartella, 29, who left her as party president in 2021.

“Today is not only Marine Le Pen, who was unfairly convicted: was the French democracy that was killed,” Bardela said in a statement.

Le Pen has argued that it was acceptable to adapt the work of the assistants who the European Parliament pushed with the needs of legislators, including some of the party’s political actions.

Listening sessions showed that some European Union’s money was used to pay the price of Le Pen’s personal goalkeeper – who was once a personal guardian of her father – as well as her personal assistant.

Jean -Marie Le Pen, her father, participated in the establishment of the National Front in the 1970s and led her to be a marginal party to compete for the French elections on a surface tour in 2002.