France’s Marine Le Pen Found Guilty Of Embezzlement

The BBC reports:

France’s Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of misappropriating European funds to finance her far-right National Rally (RN) party, in a case which could lead to her being barred from standing in the 2027 presidential election. The judge has not yet said what the sentence will be.

Prosecutors last year said Le Pen’s punishment should be not just a €300,000 (£250,000) fine and prison term, but also ineligibility from running for public office for five years.

Le Pen was accused, along with more than 20 other senior party figures, of hiring assistants who worked on her RN party affairs rather than for the European Parliament which paid them. During the trial last year, Le Pen denied she had committed “the slightest irregularity”.

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Marine Le Pen banned from running for public office after guilty verdict in embezzlement trial – Europe live https://t.co/RlWB2qsSZC

— Pierre Crom (@PierreCrom) March 31, 2025

France has banned Marine Le Pen from running for office. She and her party were heavily favored to win in the upcoming 2027 election.

This is lawfare, plain and simple. They’re doing to her what they did to Calin Georgescu in Romania, and what they tried to do to Trump. pic.twitter.com/8xboVaDjQt

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 31, 2025