(31 Mar 2025)
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Paris – 31 March 2025
1. Various of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaving court
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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen walked out of a Paris court as the chief judge on Monday barred her from seeking public office after she was found guilty of embezzling EU funds.
The judge hasn’t yet said how long Le Pen will be ineligible for running for public office.
Le Pen didn’t wait around to find out. In a moment of high drama, she got up and left, walking out of the court and then the courthouse before she was driven away.
Le Pen and 24 other officials from the National Rally were accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations. Le Pen and her co-defendants denied wrongdoing.
Le Pen, 56, was runner-up to President Emmanuel Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, and her party’s electoral support has grown in recent years.
AP video shot by Nicolas Garriga.
Production by Masha Macpherson and Jeff Schaeffer
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