The trial against Marine Le Pe for embezzlement is pending sentencing

MADRID 27 Nov. (ERUOPA PRESS) –

The trial against the leader of the National Rally, the far-right Marine Le Pen, and other members of her party, for embezzlement of European Union funds, was heard this Wednesday for sentencing, scheduled for early 2025.

Le Pen has claimed to feel “calm” after participating in the last session of the trial that began on September 30 and is judging the alleged false hiring of parliamentary assistants with funds from the European Union, which in reality served to pay party workers and relieve your finances.

The accusation maintains that the party would have embezzled European funds worth three million euros between 2004 and 2016. Le Pen, in particular, is accused of paying three assistants who work on behalf of the party with this money.

The Prosecutor’s Office has requested a five-year prison sentence for Le Pen, including a two-year suspended sentence, a fine of 300,000 euros and a five-year disqualification, which would be applied immediately, even in the event of an appeal, which would put his presidential ambitions in 2027 are clearly at risk.

For his part, the lawyer of the leader of the French extreme right, Rodolphe Bosselut, has asked for her acquittal and has assured that the accusation is “a weapon of mass destruction of the democratic game” that attacks not only the millions of voters of the National Rally. , but to the entire electorate.

Le Pen, who did not take her turn to speak at the close of the session, has expressed to the media that this entire case is “an attack by politicians against politicians, even against politics,” reported the French channel BFMTV.