BETWEEN 2004 and 2016, Marine Le Pen was on the coronary heart of a scheme that diverted European Union funds to pay her get together’s political employees, falsely claiming that they had been working as assistants to its deputies within the European Parliament. Thus ruled a Paris court docket on March thirty first, sentencing Ms Le Pen and 23 different officers of her hard-right Nationwide Rally (RN) get together to a mixture of fines, jail phrases and bans from campaigning. The choice has landed in French politics like a bomb, owing to 1 facet of Ms Le Pen’s sentence: she is barred for 5 years from operating for workplace, with fast impact. That would come with the presidential election in 2027, through which she is the front-runner.
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