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.
CELEBRATION TIME COME ON
Needs a permaban.
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!
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.
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…
Instead, the US bars people from voting!
I’m worried/curious if macron would try to pardon her or find another way to allow her to stay in after he ran to them for help after the last election
The appropriate reaction would be to ban them for being fucking fascists, not for some incidental crime they happened to commit.
Is Trump now going to demand that the French government pardon her?
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.
What? I thought the fascists were decent, law abiding people?
Well, as a politician the more your disrespect law the more you are likely to be elected (hi Sarkozy, hi Trump)
Hehe get fucked
Let’s hope the French justice system is more competent than the US one.
Ask sarkozy
Pour quai?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy_corruption_trial
And there is another trial going on. So the French justice system is sound.
“sound” is a big word, for a justice system that perpetuates state violence and mistreats immigrants and disabled people.
But yes, the french system is more successful at holding politicians accountable than the US.
You’re moving goal posts. Context is politician as per the top comment.
That’s not moving goalposts. Your original comment was stating the system was sound because the politician was convicted. The person you are replying to was refuting that based on other failures of the french court system.
If you had instead posited “the french justice system is sound in this regard” referencing political conviction solely, then you might have ground for them ignoring the argument.
“sound” is a big word, for a justice system that perpetuates state violence and mistreats immigrants.
The justice system doesn’t, the police does
I kinda disagree here. Ofc the police is on the front line, but the judges protect policemen and policewomen from being convicted or too harshly punished.
More generally, it is judges who decide to send people to prison, to inflict economic and social punishments on people deviating from the state, to send refugees back to suffering or death they tried to escape from. I saw trials in France where the judges considered the fact that a militant had anarchist books in his library as aggravating circumstance. I studied law for 3 years and made internship in tribunals, and it is not a misconception to say that the judiciary system is protecting and perpetrating state violence, though it’s less bloody than what the cops can do.
Pourquoi?
Merci!
Baguette!
good news for once
Fantastic news even!
Les jeux sont faits
Rien ne va plus.
What? Another ‘conservative’ who is a criminal? Shocked! Shocked I say!
She’s not your average conservative. She’s an actual fascist – linked with Orbán, Trump, Meloni, received millions from Putin, and her party was formed by and still includes numerous nazis, regardless of her rebranding efforts. This goes both for the founding members and the current recruits.
And Meloni, please gals and guys, never forget Meloni. I know she looks like an ugly Chihuahua, but she bites much more than she barks.
You’re right… I fixed it.
Maybe not an average conservative in France, but pretty spot-on for a conservative in the U.S.
Because what the US call conservative is what the EU calls far-right. EU conservatives, or traditional right, are similar to your average Democrat.
The original conservatives were in De Gaulle’s party, which was ferociously anti-nazi.
Although, naturally, as a conservative party they’re now talking about immigration, restricting liberties and the like…
Still a far cry from what Le Pen is up to.
Womp womp!
And kremlin deplores frances lack of democracy, so I sure think we’re on the right track!
Just waiting for the ineligibility time…
provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Well, execution will definitely put a crimp in her political plans.
