A la barre
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Questioned again by the court, the former president of the far-right party denounced incriminating proceedings and challenged the embarrassing witnesses, but she still struggled to chip away at the accusation.
Marine Le Pen is an experienced politician, who knows how to rewrite the facts to her advantage or empty them of their substance. She gave a new example, Tuesday November 5, before the 11th chamber of the Paris criminal court, at the trial of the fictitious assistants of the FN (now RN). At the bar, in her blue suit for a “sole on stage” of a little less than an hour and a half with the air of a pleading, the Frontist leader sought, before her very last hearing, to unravel one by one the “reproaches” that justice would do to him. And that she considers “unfair”. In reality, they are the basis of part of the body of evidence which outlines in this file a vast system of embezzlement of public funds, estimated at 4.7 million euros, supposedly committed for years by her, her party, and executives or former FN executives, to the detriment of the European Union.
But for Le Pen, they are above all proof that the investigation would have been carried out solely against the prosecution, to bring down the far-right party. In the corridors of the court, Jean-Marie Le Pen's daughter began to suggest to journalists the idea that
