After the conviction of Marine Le Pen on Monday, March 31, at 4 years in jail, two of that are shut and 5 years of ineligibility throughout the framework of the trial of assistants of the National Front (the previous identify of the National Rally) within the European Parliament, the primary president of the Court of Cassation, Christophe Soulard, warns towards the hazard that assaults towards justice on democracy.
After her conviction, Marine Le Pen mentioned that “the system has taken out the nuclear bomb” and that the “tyranny of judges” threatens our democracy. How do you react?
I might first wish to recall that it was a conviction which intervened after a trial of a number of months, throughout which Marine Le Pen, all of the defendants and their legal professionals had been capable of specific themselves, quote witnesses, contest the paperwork showing within the file. This listening to, itself, is the continuation of an instruction of a number of years. The three judges who rendered this collegial determination deliberated at size and made a essentially motivated determination. And right now, this determination is the topic of an enchantment. So every little thing will begin once more. The Court of Appeal could calm down the defendants, pronounce or not a condemnation of ineligibility, accompanied or not of a provisional execution. It is a whole course of, very protecting of protection rights. If this can be a questioning of democracy, I have no idea what which means it’s obligatory to offer to the phrases.
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