Since the prosecution's requisitions this Wednesday, as part of the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front which became the National Rally, Marine Le Pen has denounced a political trial against her.
“It is my political death that is being demanded,” Marine Le Pen denounced this Friday, November 15 on TF1. The National Rally MP was once again reacting to the sentence of ineligibility with immediate execution which was requested against her by prosecutors during the trial of the assistants of FN MEPs this Wednesday.
“My political survival, obviously, will depend on the implementation of this political death sentence, with provisional execution or not,” Marine Le Pen said during this interview.
“And this is, I believe, the goal since the start of this operation which was launched by a socialist, Mr. Martin Schulz, (at the time) president of the European Parliament, in agreement with the socialist Ms. Christiane Taubira, Minister of Justice at the time,” she continued.
Evoking an “outrageous” indictment and “out of all proportion to the slightest indictment of the same type”, the member for Pas-de-Calais expressed a “feeling of revolt”.
A transpartisan “indignation”
According to her, the latter is felt by “millions of French people”, “and even beyond my own political camp, since the indignation aroused by this indictment has in some way crossed the entire political class”.
Indeed, Gérald Darmanin, Christian Estrosi and Karl Olive, but also the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon have expressed their reservations regarding the idea of a sentence of ineligibility with immediate effect.
“In reality, I realized that it was not the litigant who was being judged, that it was the political target who was being judged,” lamented the woman who appeared alongside 24 other defendants, suspected of having hired assistants to MEPs whose missions were in fact for the sole benefit of the far-right party.
The defense pleadings are expected on Monday, before a judgment from the Paris Criminal Court which must be delivered in early 2025.
