Summary
A French court found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of embezzling over €3 million in EU funds, potentially ending her 2027 presidential bid.
The judge ruled Le Pen and 24 others misused European Parliament funds between 2004 and 2016 to pay National Rally party staff, calling it a deliberate scheme, not an error.
Prosecutors had sought five years’ prison and a public office ban. Even with an appeal, a provisional execution could bar her candidacy.
Good, she’s an awful person.
Well, as a politician the more your disrespect law the more you are likely to be elected (hi Sarkozy, hi Trump)
Let’s hope the French justice system is more competent than the US one.
Ask sarkozy
Pour quai?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy_corruption_trial
And there is another trial going on. So the French justice system is sound.
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“sound” is a big word, for a justice system that perpetuates state violence and mistreats immigrants and disabled people.
But yes, the french system is more successful at holding politicians accountable than the US.
You’re moving goal posts. Context is politician as per the top comment.
That’s not moving goalposts. Your original comment was stating the system was sound because the politician was convicted. The person you are replying to was refuting that based on other failures of the french court system.
If you had instead posited “the french justice system is sound in this regard” referencing political conviction solely, then you might have ground for them ignoring the argument.
Good point. Original Commenter (OC) is claiming a specificity after the fact when initially they were claiming a generality.
As a reader though, OC’s meaning came across in my first reading. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“sound” is a big word, for a justice system that perpetuates state violence and mistreats immigrants.
The justice system doesn’t, the police does
I kinda disagree here. Ofc the police is on the front line, but the judges protect policemen and policewomen from being convicted or too harshly punished.
More generally, it is judges who decide to send people to prison, to inflict economic and social punishments on people deviating from the state, to send refugees back to suffering or death they tried to escape from. I saw trials in France where the judges considered the fact that a militant had anarchist books in his library as aggravating circumstance. I studied law for 3 years and made internship in tribunals, and it is not a misconception to say that the judiciary system is protecting and perpetrating state violence, though it’s less bloody than what the cops can do.
Pourquoi?
Merci!
Baguette!
Damn, that’s good. Thanks!
Ohh edgy
Wait, y’all can just convict a right-wing political figure and like, get rid of them? Forever?
We gotta check our math, I think we did something wrong over here.
Yeah. It was reconstruction where we never held the south to account for their treasonous actions.
Lol of course not. She’ll be right back in five years. And people will vote for her again.
I heard that Trump jumped up and down and threw his juice box when JD explained he couldn’t pardon her.
The French know what’s up. As per usual.
Wait, y’all can just convict a right-wing political figure and like, get rid of them? Forever?
Maybe. We’ll see if this is a real prosecution or just French Mueller Time.
I… I didn’t know you could do that.
“could” end it.
Are we cooked as a species? Embezzlement is a pretty big crime. She should be going to jail and it should most definitely end her political aspirations
Are we cooked as a species?
Yes, and it’s by design.
Parents who have sold themselves out also condition their children to do the same thing.
The people who are taken advantage of the most are the ones who never realize it.
Classic right wing thinking means that for them, the morally righteous can do no wrong, so convictions of embezzlement don’t matter. Laws are there only to punish the undeserving, meaning everyone not in the in-group.
The liberals should be upholding the law and throw these people in jail. If fraud pays, of course the right wingers will abuse it.
Of all countries on earth to try that hierarchy bullshit.
The one that famously guillotined the hierarchy.
Same way Trump’s “political aspirations” need to be ended
This is about France and not the USA.
I thought this was about the human species being cooked.
Nah, being convicted is for minorities and the poor.
That said, I’m not sure if she’s rich so maybe?
4 years. Let’s see how it plays out.
Is Trump now going to demand that the French government pardon her?
I wonder if she’ll write a book about her struggle
Ma Lutte?
Sounds like a medieval guitar.
So many good news rolling in today
Wish our justice system actually did it’s job here…
“Embezzlement,” how quaint!
Embezzlement? You mean Tuesday?
No, this is Monday, Emoluments Day.
If she’s banned from running it will be the first instance of a western liberal country reacting appropriately to the resurgence of fascism. Good on France.
The appropriate reaction would be to ban them for being fucking fascists, not for some incidental crime they happened to commit.
Well, she still committed financial fraud. It’s more the judiciary doing its job. Sarkozy was also convicted after his presidency.
Yeah, if only other Western countries barred politicians from running or holding office if they’ve been convicted of a crime…
Instead, the US bars people from voting!
I’m worried/curious if macron would try to pardon her or find another way to allow her to stay in after he ran to them for help after the last election
Nah, not the first.
What? Another ‘conservative’ who is a criminal? Shocked! Shocked I say!
She’s not your average conservative. She’s an actual fascist – linked with Orbán, Trump, Meloni, received millions from Putin, and her party was formed by and still includes numerous nazis, regardless of her rebranding efforts. This goes both for the founding members and the current recruits.
Maybe not an average conservative in France, but pretty spot-on for a conservative in the U.S.
Because what the US call conservative is what the EU calls far-right. EU conservatives, or traditional right, are similar to your average Democrat.
The original conservatives were in De Gaulle’s party, which was ferociously anti-nazi.
Although, naturally, as a conservative party they’re now talking about immigration, restricting liberties and the like…
Still a far cry from what Le Pen is up to.
And Meloni, please gals and guys, never forget Meloni. I know she looks like an ugly Chihuahua, but she bites much more than she barks.
You’re right… I fixed it.
Meloni, one L.
What? I thought the fascists were decent, law abiding people?
The fascist who could have ended the French republic and turned it into a fascist state being done in by an embezzlement charge sounds like an insult.
I feel shocked.
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