France’s far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement in ruling that could end her career
France’s far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement in ruling that could end her career
Le Pen may still appeal the four-year sentence, two years of it suspended, and five-year political ban, which came after she was found guilty of misusing $3 million to pay party staff.
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.
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"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.
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.