Summary
A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling over €3 million in EU funds, potentially ending her 2027 presidential bid.
The judge ruled Le Pen and 24 others misused European Parliament funds between 2004 and 2016 to pay National Rally party staff, calling it a deliberate scheme, not an error.
Prosecutors had sought five years’ prison and a public office ban. Even with an appeal, a provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Let’s hope the French justice system is more competent than the US one.
Well, as a politician the more your disrespect law the more you are likely to be elected (hi Sarkozy, hi Trump)
“could” end it.
Are we cooked as a species? Embezzlement is a pretty big crime. She should be going to jail and it should most definitely end her political aspirations
4 years. Let’s see how it plays out.
Damn, that’s good. Thanks!
Ohh edgy
I wonder if she’ll write a book about her struggle
Wish our justice system actually did it’s job here…
If she’s banned from running it will be the first instance of a western liberal country reacting appropriately to the resurgence of fascism. Good on France.
The appropriate reaction would be to ban them for being fucking fascists, not for some incidental crime they happened to commit.
Well, she still committed financial fraud. It’s more the judiciary doing its job. Sarkozy was also convicted after his presidency.
Yeah, if only other Western countries barred politicians from running or holding office if they’ve been convicted of a crime…
Is Trump now going to demand that the French government pardon her?
I feel shocked.
/s
The fascist who could have ended the French republic and turned it into a fascist state being done in by an embezzlement charge sounds like an insult.
provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Well, execution will definitely put a crimp in her political plans.
Could someone tell me how she was able to walk out of the court having been sentenced to prison?
The prison sentence kicks in after appeals have been made. 2 years, plus 2 suspended.
It’s also not unknown/uncommon for people to be let free for a few days. It lets them put their affairs in order, before serving their time. It tends to be applied to those with a very low flight risk however, with significant affairs, so mainly the rich.
Thank you.
She’s not going to prison. Just electronic bracelet. And that’s assuming appeals don’t work.
Is that house arrest?
Pretty common deal if the conviction wasn’t for violence. Meth head and his wife down the road were sentenced and had a month or two to gut their rental trailer and sell the parts off. LOL, they fucking sold the floorboards. Got some good gardening stuff off him though!
good news for once
Fantastic news even!
She can steal appeal. Hope she loses harder then.
Hehe get fucked
