Alexandre Varaut, the reactionary face of the occasion | EUROtoday

They are two attorneys with out robes, this Monday, September 30, to seem in entrance of the microphones on the opening of the trial of parliamentary assistants of the National Front, accused of embezzlement of funds from the European Parliament. In the foreground, the defendant Marine Le Pen, a short-lived lawyer within the early Nineties, earlier than embarking on a political profession. Behind her, as an attentive observer, a person with sparse hair, dry as a long-distance runner, who has been crisscrossing courthouses and radical proper teams for 3 many years. Alexandre Varaut, 58, is the architect of the protection of the National Rally (RN) and its chief, who dangers a sentence of ineligibility and as much as ten years in jail. He constructed his technique, fashioned a pool of black clothes, ensured communication forward of the trial, however his function stops on the door of the courtroom of the Paris Criminal Court.

Because, since June 9, the person can be a European deputy and, as such, prevented from pleading in courtroom. Was the place in an eligible place on Jordan Bardella’s record used to not directly remunerate the lawyer for providers rendered to the occasion? Absolutely not, pleads Master Varaut, who opposes his want to “to move from particular interest to general interest, to [son] country “. Marine Le Pen, who likes to surround herself with lawyers, is said to be delighted with his services since she called him for help in 2015 to manage the parliamentary assistants file. They had not spoken to each other for twenty years, a time when Varaut was one of the few, at the courthouse, to assume the responsibility of shaking the hand of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter. His friends praise his courtesy, his culture and his even humor. “He approaches the files first as
a lawyer but understands that a case also has a media and political aspect”, greets Philippe Olivier, MEP and special advisor to Marine Le Pen.

The man, after thirty years at the bar, had been circling for some time around the idea of ​​a more direct commitment. He had carved out a place among the “Horaces”, these common and nameless advisors to the MP for Pas-de-Calais, and had thought of operating for the 2022 legislative elections, however the activists from Vaucluse, the place he was to be parachuted , did not need him. This lifelong Parisian then gave up on shifting to Arles, in Bouches-du-Rhône, the place he was supplied a positive constituency. His attachment to the occasion will subsequently wait two extra years.

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