At the trial of FN parliamentary assistants, the “Sisyphean work” of the protection | EUROtoday

“The debates were bitter, difficult; we have to go back up this slope, muttered Mᵉ David Dassat-Le Deist. It’s a Sisyphean job for the defense. But, said Camus, “we must imagine Sisyphus happy”. » It shouldn’t be sure that the lawyer for the National Rally (RN) is in the end glad, however he stated unvarnished, and with a sure virulence, on Tuesday November 26, what the defendants had on their hearts the day earlier than of the top of the trial of social gathering aides within the European Parliament.

“It is a bad indictment against a political party, and against politics, said the lawyer. The trial has become political. I heard an indictment, which is a manifesto – an unprecedented fraud, a new betrayal of the clerics, an attack on democracy. There is the European Parliament, dressed all in white, and the good guys on one side, the bad guys on the other. » “The liege man” of all this, “the one-man orchestra of fraud”could be Wallerand de Saint Just, the treasurer of the social gathering, which he additionally defends. In reality, he shortly deserted the treasurer within the open countryside to sharply assault the 2 prosecutors, and “their narrative of this file”.

These requisitions are for the lawyer “an infamy”whereas the RN is the main opposition social gathering and “the spur of political life”. The prosecution demanded a conviction from the RN “asphyxiating” of 4 million euros, half of which is suspended (along with the million already seized by the courts), which corresponds to the belongings of the final earnings assertion for 2023, whereas within the liabilities, there are 20 million of excellent debt and loans. “Would it hurt the prosecutor too much to also look at the liability column? »

“We are in the affect, the vengeful violence”

The assault is oblique, however violent. The prosecutor, throughout a protracted indictment on November 13, shared along with her colleague from the prosecution, indicated that she lacked proof on a case, however had blurted out, “that would hurt me too much” to request launch. “Ah, the confession! “, Marine Le Pen immediately jumped out, and the party has been doing it ever since. The word is certainly unfortunate, but it only concerned the obscure contract in 2011 of Jean-François Jalkh, since struck down by a stroke and who will perhaps be judged later, when he was in an inextricable situation since in the at the same time parliamentary assistant to Jean-Marie Le Pen, secretary general of the FN, regional councilor of Lorraine, employed by a consulting firm and by an accounting firm.

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