The Prosecutor’s Office requests five years of disqualification for Marine Le Pen without immediate execution for misuse of EU funds

Additionally, request four years in prison, although only one of firm compliance with an electronic braceletand a 100,000 euro fine.

After hearing a requirement somewhat less severe than his sentence in the first instance, when prosecutors requested that the disqualification not be immediate and reduced the firm prison with electronic monitoring to only one year, instead of two, Marine Le Pen left the court without making a statement.

Along with ten other people related to his party, the National Group (RN), Le Pen had been punished in the first instance, in March 2025, for embezzlement of public funds from the European Parliament by having used parliamentary assistants to work in the National Front (previous name of the RN), instead of in the European Parliament.

The disqualification issued then against the leader was immediately enforceable, which would leave her out of the race for the Elysee if the Appeal ruling, expected for the summer, does not prevent it.

The two prosecutors who issued the long indictment launched harsh criticism of the scheme in which the twenty people convicted in the first instance participated, half of them current RN officials.

Although they appreciated Le Pen’s change of tone in the Appeal, prosecutor Thierry Ramonatxo considered the “mediatized attacks” in the first instance on the judicial institution inadmissible and cited the “explicit death threats” suffered by the magistrates who handed down the sentence in the first instance.

The attorney general stated that it was demonstrated during the appeal process that “there was a fraudulent organization with the goal of financing” the National Front (today RN) which, at that time, was suffering serious economic problems.

“It’s about a system designed to divert public funds disregarding the rules of probity and the functioning of public affairs“he lamented.

The lawyer recalled that the organism affected in the first place by this system, andthe European Parliament, It is financed by taxes, directly or indirectly, from the French and the rest of the citizens of EU member countries.

The other attorney general of the petition, Stéphane Madoz-Blanchet, took the opportunity to criticize Marine Le Pen’s practices and assured that the fact of being a person elected by universal suffrage “does not represent a refuge from the law, but it does represent a maximum requirement.”

In the first instance, the judges They considered it proven that Le Pen had inherited from her father a system of illegal financing of her party, through the use of funds allocated to parliamentary assistants between 2004 and 2016.

He Estimated damage to the European Parliament was more than four million of euros.

In the appeal trial, Le Pen adopted a defense strategy based on involuntariness and good faith. “If I have committed a crime, I did not have the feeling of having done so,” he stated, stressing that there was no intention to establish a system to illegally finance his party with European funds.

He argued that all his actions were public and that the European Parliament never warned them of possible irregularities.

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