(31 Mar 2025)
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Paris, France – 31 March 2025
1. Tracking shot of French far right leader Le Pen departing party headquarters in Paris
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A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes and an earthquake for French politics.
Le Pen’s lawyer said she would appeal the verdict, but she will remain ineligible while she does and could be ruled out of the 2027 presidential race.
She was also sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, with two to be served under house arrest and two suspended.
The court ruling was a political and judicial temblor for France, hobbling one of the leading contenders to succeed President Emmanuel Macron at the end of his second and final term.
Le Pen herself was not around to hear the chief judge pronounce the sentence that threw her career into a tailspin.
By then, she had strode out of the courtroom after the judge first indicated that the 56-year-old would be barred from office, without saying straight away for how long.
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