This is the case with the RN owner. Capital video: trial of RN parliamentary assistants: Marine Le Pen sentenced to an ineligibility sentence © Bloomberg/Getty Images – Marine Le Pen and other RN executives are sentenced to ineligibility. Save save Receive the alerts Marine Le Pen The cleaver fell. Marine Le Pen is sentenced to an ineligibility sentence of five years, “with provisional execution”, that is to say that she applies immediately (even in the event of an appeal), a fine of 100,000 euros and a four-year imprisonment sentence, two of which were developed under electronic bracelet, which means that she will not go to prison. The boss of the National Rally (RN) was found guilty of embezzlement of public funds. Approaching the 2027 presidential election, the verdict of the trial of parliamentary assistants of the National Front (former party name) could therefore compel Marine Le Pen to review her ambitions. “It is a question of ensuring that elected officials like all the litigants do not benefit from a preferential regime,” said the president of the Paris court on Monday, March 31. Marine Le Pen left the courtroom without waiting to know what trouble was pronounced against her. His lawyer, Me Rodolphe Bosselut, announced that Marine Le Pen will “appeal” to her conviction. Marine Le Pen and her co -ownerships found guilty after eight weeks of appearance last fall, Marine Le Pen and other RN members, implicated in the trial for suspicion of fictitious jobs of European parliamentary assistants, were found guilty of embezzlement for total damage of 2.9 million euros. The Paris Criminal Court suspected the representatives of the RN of having established “in a concerted and deliberate manner” between 2004 and 2016, a “diversion system” of the envelopes allocated by the European Union (EU) to each deputy for the salary of parliamentary assistants. Read also: François Bayrou: Under the threat of the case of parliamentary assistants of the modem? With Marine Le Pen, several figures from the national rally are questioned by justice. This is the case of the former Competition of Marine Le Pen and mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, of the former number 2 of the party, Bruno Gollnisch, of the former vice-president of reconquest !, Nicolas Bay, of the ex-Tresor of the National Front, Wallerand de Saint-Just, or the deputy and current spokesperson of the RN, Julien Odoul. Jordan Bardella, who was a parliamentary assistant in 2015, was not prosecuted in this case. In total, among the accused, 11 were elected MEPs on FN lists from 2004 to 2016. Twelve were their parliamentary assistants and four others were collaborators of the Flame party. This is the case of the former chief of staff at Marine Le Pen and current MEP, Catherine Griset, as well as the ex-Garde of the body of the RN patron in the National Assembly, Thierry Legier. The 23 warrants were sentenced to sentences ranging from six months suspended prison sentence to four, two of which were with fines and/or unlocked sorrows. Only an accused was released. In addition, the National Front Party, which has become a national rally has been sentenced to a fine of 2 million euros, including 1 million firm, as well as the confiscation of 1 million euros seized during the investigation during the case of European parliamentary assistants. The RN accused of having created a system of embezzlement of European funds is accused of having set up a “system” aimed at diverting envelopes intended for remuneration Assistants of MEP elected on his lists, in order to replenish the party’s funds. These funds, in the amount of 21,000 euros per month, are allocated by the European Union to deputies to enable them to remunerate their parliamentary assistants. Justice suspects the latter of not having worked for the EU during this period, or at least, not completely. Marine Le Pen, who was between 2014 and 2019 at the same time president of the FN and deputy European, would be “one of the main officials of the system thus put in place when she had been informed by her exchanges with the party treasurer, in 2013, of the need to relieve the finances of the FN”, specify the two judges of financial investigation in the order of referral consulted by AFP. At that time, the FN was heavily indebted and decided in particular to sell the former party headquarters in Saint-Cloud for an amount of 10 million euros. To read also: embezzlement of public funds: Minister Philippe Tabarot referred to by a preliminary survey The European Parliament was seized in 2015. An anonymous report reports that, out of the 80 employees presented in the organization chart of the National Front, 20 are parliamentary assistants of a party MEP. The European Parliament then seized the European Antifraude Wrestling Office (OLAF) and French justice, which opened a preliminary investigation on December 15, 2016. At the end of this judicial information, “various elements allow us to consider the establishment of a fraud system initially intended to ensure the financing of jobs attached to relatives of Jean-Marie Le Pen, then president of the FN, and which gradually benefited more generally” Two investigating judges, according to AFP. 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