Marine Le Pen denounces a “political death sentence” | EUROtoday
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“C“It is my political death that is being demanded,” Marine Le Pen stated on TF1 on Friday after the sentence of ineligibility with rapid execution which was requested towards her by prosecutors in the course of the trial of the assistants of RN MEPs. The prosecution additionally requested 5 years’ imprisonment towards her, together with two years’ imprisonment, and a advantageous of 300,000 euros.
The protection pleadings are anticipated on Monday, earlier than a judgment from the legal courtroom which should be rendered in early 2025.
“My political survival, obviously, will depend on the implementation of this political death sentence, with provisional execution or not,” stated Ms. Le Pen throughout an interview with the 8:00 p.m. newspaper. “And this is, I believe, the aim from the start of this operation which was launched by a socialist, Mr (Martin) Schulz, (at the time) President of the European Parliament, in agreement with the socialist Mrs ( Christiane) Taubira, Minister of Justice at the time,” she continued.
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By evoking an “outrageous” indictment and “out of all proportion to the slightest indictment of the same type”, the member for Pas-de-Calais expressed a “feeling of revolt”, in response to her additionally felt by “tens of millions of French”, “and even past my very own political camp, for the reason that indignation aroused by this indictment has ultimately crossed the whole political class”.
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The Macronists Gérald Darmanin, Christian Estrosi and Karl Olive, but additionally Jean-Luc Mélenchon expressed their reservations concerning the thought of a sentence of ineligibility with rapid impact. “In reality, I realized that it was not the litigant who was being judged, that it was the political target who was being judged,” protested the girl who appeared alongside 24 different defendants, suspected of getting employed assistants to MEPs whose missions have been the truth is for the only real advantage of the far-right celebration.
Asked a few want to “put pressure on the justice system”, whereas the RN notably launched an internet petition to protest towards these requisitions of the prosecution, Marine Le Pen replied “Never in my life”. “But we had to give the opportunity to those who were outraged […] to express this indignation, but in the most peaceful way possible, that is to say through a petition,” she additional justified herself.
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