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.
Damn, that’s good. Thanks!
Ohh edgy
“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
Classic right wing thinking means that for them, the morally righteous can do no wrong, so convictions of embezzlement don’t matter. Laws are there only to punish the undeserving, meaning everyone not in the in-group.
The liberals should be upholding the law and throw these people in jail. If fraud pays, of course the right wingers will abuse it.
Of all countries on earth to try that hierarchy bullshit.
The one that famously guillotined the hierarchy.
Same way Trump’s “political aspirations” need to be ended
This is about France and not the USA.
I thought this was about the human species being cooked.
Nah, being convicted is for minorities and the poor.
That said, I’m not sure if she’s rich so maybe?
4 years. Let’s see how it plays out.
Are we cooked as a species?
Yes, and it’s by design.
Parents who have sold themselves out also condition their children to do the same thing.
The people who are taken advantage of the most are the ones who never realize it.
Wish our justice system actually did it’s job here…
“Embezzlement,” how quaint!
Embezzlement? You mean Tuesday?
No, this is Monday, Emoluments Day.
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…
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
Nah, not the first.
So many good news rolling in today
CELEBRATION TIME COME ON
Good, she’s an awful person.
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.
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!
I feel shocked.
/s
I wonder if she’ll write a book about her struggle
Ma Lutte?
Sounds like a medieval guitar.
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.
“pfffft…amateur.” (Donald Trump, probably)
Well, as a politician the more your disrespect law the more you are likely to be elected (hi Sarkozy, hi Trump)
provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Well, execution will definitely put a crimp in her political plans.
She can steal appeal. Hope she loses harder then.
