At the trial of Marine Le Pen, the scope of the referral to the courtroom in query | EUROtoday

Marine Le Pen’s protection scored some extent, Wednesday January 14, on the second day of the attraction trial within the case of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN), the place she performs up her ineligibility within the presidential election. On a pointed level of regulation, with dry argumentation; the query was closely debated in courtroom within the fall of 2024.

The investigating choose thought of, within the annex to the order of reference, that she may refer the celebration to courtroom for “concealment of embezzlement of public funds”, “even so” the FN European deputies “had not been indicted on this charge”counting on two judgments of the Court of Cassation. That is to say that even when a contract between a MEP and his assistant is interrupted, the offense of concealment and complicity nonetheless applies to the celebration and to Marine Le Pen. The prevention interval – throughout which the felony offense runs – was due to this fact largely prolonged, and the monetary penalties critically elevated.

The protection legal professionals, shocked, strongly protested in courtroom towards this extension of the prosecution. Marine Le Pen was the primary involved, in addition to, as accomplices, the celebration treasurer, Wallerand de Saint-Just, and the accountant Nicolas Crochet. “The surprise, alleged [par la défense]is itself surprising, prosecutors observed. We come to tell you: “I thought that the incriminating developments on complicity and the appendix prepared by the investigating judge were decorative”. »

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