“I believe that Marine knows all of this…” | EUROtoday

Mr. Marquis Wallerand de Saint-Just d’Autingues has lengthy expertise within the courtrooms and is aware of find out how to courteously reply the query. Not solely as a result of he was the lawyer for forty years of the National Front (FN) and subsidiarily that of Brigitte Bardot, however as a result of the celebration’s treasurer has already been sentenced in 2023 to 6 months suspended sentence and a sentence of ineligibility of two years for “concealment of abuse of social assets” within the Jeanne affair, a intelligent association to finance the 2012 legislative elections.

Mᵉ Saint-Just, 74 years previous, – who has little reference to Robespierre’s shut pal, besides that they have been each elected in Aisne and stumbled into Paris – willingly wraps herself in her good religion and was outraged, Monday November 4, on the trial of the assistants of the European Parliament, on the slightest notorious suspicion. He was treasurer, volunteer, of the FN from 2009 and for twelve years, member of the political bureau, then of the manager bureau, and even vice-president, and worker of the celebration from 2014 for authorized and judicial affairs. Since becoming a member of the FN in 1986, he has offered himself in all elections, “except in the presidency of the Republic”jokes the defendant.

In 2016, the monetary state of affairs of the FN was not good, bills elevated in three years from 140,000 to 662,000 euros, the debt exceeded 9.1 million. “We especially had a cash flow problem, pleads the lawyer. In truth, the situation of the movement was healthy and will only improve. » In the meantime, costs must be reduced and the prosecution suspects him of having wanted to take advantage of the European windfall to relieve the party’s finances, by hiring fictitious assistants.

The clues abound. He did not see malice in Parliament paying severance pay of 21,000 euros to Jean-Marie Le Pen’s bodyguard, when he changed his parliamentary assistant contract, nor when the devoted secretary of president became on paper assistant to Bruno Gollnisch. He no longer really knows if he had noticed that Marine Le Pen’s chief of staff was also assigned to Strasbourg or if Yann Maréchal, Marine’s sister, who was in charge of major demonstrations at headquarters, had followed the same path.

“To be aware is not to be complicit! »

The president of the court puts an email under his nose which proves that Marine Le Pen’s driver was paid as a parliamentary assistant, the old lawyer at first does not remember it, then assures “that being aware is not being complicit!” » and protests with the behavior that comes from lengthy attendance on the bar: “A fictitious job, in French, is an individual who does no work, I’m fairly shocked by this deviation within the language! »

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