Marine Le Pen found guilty in EU funding embezzlement case

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ER Editor: And just as we were putting out a background piece on Le Pen this morning. the news breaks on the verdict in her case. Expect much more to come. For those not familiar with the case, we do recommend —

Le Pen Trial: French Democracy In the Dock?

🚨🇫🇷 “A French Court has found Marine Le Pen Guilty of Embezzlement charges”

The EU Communists know they can’t stop the Populist uprising democratically so they have weaponised the justice system across Europe to go after their Political adversaries.

Le Pen was leading the… pic.twitter.com/02Cf9RD7WZ

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) March 31, 2025

NEWS – A French court has found Marine Le Pen GUILTY of misappropriating EU funds.

She was leading in the polls to be the next President of France.

The question is now, will they ban her from running for election? pic.twitter.com/riXPK7Db43

— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) March 31, 2025

🚨Breaking News🚨

Marine Le Pen with 8 other National Rally associates have been found guilty of misappropriating EU funds.

I would see this as no more than lawfare & a political means to exclude her from government. pic.twitter.com/jPsLVQyj7n

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) March 31, 2025

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According to RT France, Le Pen was found guilty and therefore ineligible to run for political office, which now puts her in the hands of the French Constitutional Court to try to reverse that decision – 

During her trial before the Paris correctional court, Marine Le Pen was sentenced to ineligibility for embezzlement of public funds. 8 MEPs and 12 assistants were also sentenced. Marine Le Pen was, like 8 Eurodeputies or former Eurodeputies, given a penalty of ineligibility with immediate execution. The fate of the one who must lead the RN during the presidential election of 2027 will therefore be in the hands of the Constitutional Council. At the announcement of the verdict, Marine Le Pen left the court angry. The total harm of the misuse of funds is estimated at 2.9 million euros by the court. The damage to Marine Le Pen alone is estimated at 474,000 euros for the positions of four parliamentary assistants. The court found that the RN had “made the European Parliament pay for people who actually worked for the party”. 12 Parliamentary collaborators also on trial alongside them were also found guilty of concealment.  (Source, RT France)

See also this by RT —

France’s Le Pen sentenced to four years in jail

A Paris court has sentenced French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen to a four-year jail term, half of which is without parole, in a case involving the embezzlement of EU funds for her National Rally (RN) party. Le Pen has also been barred from running for president in 2027.

The verdict on Monday is the culmination of an extended case, in which RN and several of its senior figures were accused of diverting money meant for the offices of European Parliament members towards the national party structure. Le Pen and eight MEPs were found guilty of running the scheme between 2004 and 2016.

The five-year ban on participating in elections, which was requested by the prosecution, comes into effect immediately regardless of any appeal process. The top French Сonstitutional Сourt ruled last week in an unrelated case that such a punishment was legal under the basic law.

The court has reportedly allowed Le Pen to serve half of her jail time under home arrest monitored by an ankle bracelet. Others found guilty in the case on Monday were sentenced to serve time in prison, with punishments varying between 12 months and three years.

Je suis Marine! @MLP_officiel

— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) March 31, 2025

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EPA  Marine Le Pen arriving in court in Paris on Monday morning

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