The exchange could be tense. The Paris criminal court will question Marine Le Pen this Monday in the trial for suspicion of fictitious employment of assistants to European deputies which targets her, with 24 other people and the National Rally.
This trial for suspicion of fictitious employment in the European Parliament, which targets the National Rally (RN), began on September 30. On Monday, the leader of the far-right party will submit to her first interrogation since the start of the hearings.
The RN leader had already denounced “a tone of partiality” in the debates. At the opening of the trial, the elected official also insisted on displaying her “serenity” and affirmed that her party had “violated no rules”.
“Judicial schizophrenia”
Nine former MEPs from the National Front (renamed RN), including Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot, now vice-president of the RN, the former number 2 of the party Bruno Gollnisch, and the deputy and spokesperson for the RN Julien Odoul will appear. Alongside them, 12 people who were their parliamentary assistants and four party collaborators will also be judged in this trial scheduled for three half-days a week until November 27.
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At the start of the week, the defense of Marine Le Pen and the RN requested a postponement of the trial, denouncing “an enlargement” during the hearing of the alleged facts. It’s “judicial schizophrenia”, denounces Marine Le Pen’s lawyer, Me Rodolphe Bosselut, estimating that his client will now have to explain the parliamentary assistant contracts for which she was subsequently cleared. 10 years of investigation.
