At the attraction trial of FN parliamentary assistants, Marine Le Pen concedes little and insists on her “good faith” | EUROtoday

Marine Le Pen closed her 13 hours of marathon interrogation, Tuesday January 20 and Wednesday January 21, with an power which should have received the admiration of her inheritor obvious, Jordan Bardella. The member for Pas-de-Calais responded simply, and typically incorrectly, to the court docket’s questions, on the sixth day of the attraction trial of the European parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN). On the deserves, she didn’t concede a lot, however she not challenged the process within the identify of the separation of powers, cautiously assured that she “wanted to hear” {that a} crime may have been dedicated and, above all, that European parliamentary assistants may have labored “residually” for the occasion.

This is lots for Marine Le Pen, after ten years of investigation and a sentence, on March 31, 2025, to 4 years in jail, two of which have been suspended and 5 years of ineligibility. This isn’t a lot for the court docket of attraction; the previous president of the FN assures that she by no means organized a system to plunder the allocations of the European Parliament, that she by no means moved or selected the assistants of MEPs. For the remainder, she was unaware and insisted at size on her “good faith”.

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