A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions of standing in the next presidential race.

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[–] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man, wouldn't it be nice if our courts would do the same for our far-right leaders?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    "banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds...

    a four-year prison sentence with two years suspended, to be served under house arrest, and a €100,000 ($108,000) fine.

    Her party, National Rally (RN), was ordered to pay €2 million in fines for the €4.1 million that it was accused of embezzling."

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Now it's time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere...

    Source: I'm a local

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