Marine Le Pen faces crucial Paris appeals trial over misuse of EU funds
Marine Le Pen faces crucial Paris appeals trial over misuse of EU funds
Marine Le Pen faces crucial Paris appeals trial over misuse of EU funds
Marine Le Pen's political future is uncertain as she faces an appeals trial in Paris. The trial may impact her party's plans to shift France's direction with anti-immigration and nationalist policies....
PARIS (AP) — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s political future hangs in the balance at an appeals trial in Paris, which may damage her party’s ambitions of radically changing France’s direction through anti-immigration and nationalist policies.
Le Pen will answer the judges’ questions for two days starting Tuesday as she seeks to overturn a March ruling that found her guilty of misusing European Parliament funds in the hiring of aides from 2004 to 2016.
She was given a five-year ban from holding elected office, two years of house arrest with an electronic bracelet and a further two-year suspended sentence.