The trial against Marine Le Pen for alleged embezzlement is pending sentencing

The trial against the leader of the National Group, Marine Le Pen and other members of his party, for alleged embezzlement of European Union funds, were scheduled for sentencing this Wednesday, scheduled for early 2025.

Le Pen has claimed to feel “calm” after participating in the last session of the trial that began on September 30 and that judges the alleged false hiring of parliamentary assistants with funds from the European Union, which in reality served to pay party workers and alleviate their finances.

The accusation maintains that the party had embezzled European funds worth three million euros between 2004 and 2016. Le Pen, specifically, He is accused of paying three assistants who work on behalf of the party with this money.

The Prosecutor’s Office has requested that Le Pen be sentenced to five years in prison, including a two-year suspended sentence, a fine of 300,000 euros and a five-year disqualificationwhich would be applied immediately, even in the event of an appeal, which would clearly put his presidential ambitions in 2027 at risk.

For his part, his lawyer, Rodolphe Bosselut, has requested his acquittal and has assured that the accusation is “a weapon of mass destruction of the democratic game” that attacks not only the millions of National Agrupation voters, but the entire electorate.

Le Pen, who did not take her turn to speak at the close of the session, has expressed to the media that this entire case is “an attack by politicians against politicians, even against politics”, picks up the French channel BFMTV.