A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

  • TheHiddenCatboy
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    4713 days ago

    Man, wouldn’t it be nice if our courts would do the same for our far-right leaders?

    • @[email protected]
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      1613 days ago

      The verdict will stay in place even if she goes for an appeal. It can only be lifted if she actually wins the appeal but the chances of that are practically zero given the evidence.

  • @[email protected]M
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    1813 days ago

    "banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds…

    a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine.

    Her party, National Rally (RN), was ordered to pay €2 million in fines for the €4.1 million that it was accused of embezzling."

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    13 days ago

    Now it’s time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere…

    Source: I’m a local

    • @[email protected]
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      313 days ago

      Exactly, but the current government tried several times to block Anticor, which is a protection for us against corruption.