ROma, Mar. 31st (askanews) – Four years in prison, two of which without conditional (but with the use of the electronic bracelet) and five years of ineligibility from public offices: this is the penalty for the leader of the Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen, condemned for embezzlement in the case of European parliamentary assistants.
Condemned for embezzlement, Marine Le Pen “ineligible”: outside the presidential elections 2027
The Paris Court considered guilty of undue appropriation of public funds 9 MEP of Rachamment National (RN), including Le Pen; All also sentenced to a penalty of inelegitability, a decision that in fact excludes the leader of the French ultra -right from the next presidential elections expected in France in 2027.
Maintains the office of deputy until the mandate expires
The public accusation wanted the immediate execution of inexcilization, but The sentence has decided to safeguard the freedom of the voters of Le Penin the sense that in this way he will be able to maintain his office of deputy until the expiry of the mandate; However, the sanction applies immediately from the first instance sentence, even in the expectation of a possible appeal, excluding it from the race to the Elysée of 2027.
The RN leader financed European parliamentarians who between 2004 and 2016 actually worked for the party in France. The duration of the inextriction is five years.
12 assistants tried together with them were also deemed guilty of receiving stolen goods. The Court estimated the total damage in 2.9 million euros, forcing the European Parliament to “take responsibility for the people who actually worked for the party”.
Matteo Salvini’s reaction: “Next all my friend!”
The reaction of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini, whose party sits in the same group of RN at the EU Parliament, the “patriots”: “The one against Marine Le Pen is a declaration of war by Brussels, at a time when the war drives of Von der Leyen and Macron are frightening, is immediate. We don’t get intimidated, we don’t stop: ahead all my friend! “.
For the Cremlin spokesman, Dimitry Peskov, “increasingly European capitals choose to trample the democratic rules … they have no problem to cross the boundaries of democracy in the political process”.
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