“The debates were bitter, difficult; we have to go back up this slope, whispered Mᵉ David Dassat-Le Deist. It's a Sisyphean job for the defense. But, said Camus, “we must imagine Sisyphus happy”. » It is not certain that the lawyer for the National Rally (RN) is ultimately happy, but he said without disguise, and with a certain virulence, on Tuesday November 26, what the defendants had on their hearts, the day before of the end of the trial of party aides in the European Parliament.
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“It is a bad indictment against a political party, and against politics, said the lawyer. The trial has become political. I heard an indictment, which is a manifesto – an unprecedented fraud, a new betrayal of the clerics, an attack on democracy. There is the European Parliament, dressed all in white, and the good guys on one side, the bad guys on the other. » “The liege man” of all this, “the one-man orchestra of fraud”would be Wallerand de Saint Just, the treasurer of the party, which he also defends. In fact, he quickly abandoned the treasurer in the open countryside to sharply attack the two prosecutors, and “their narrative of this file”.
These requisitions are for the lawyer “an infamy”while the RN is the leading opposition party and “the spur of political life”. The prosecution demanded a conviction from the RN « asphyxiante » of 4 million euros, half of which is suspended (in addition to the million already seized by the courts), which corresponds to the assets of the last income statement for 2023, while in the liabilities, there are 20 million of outstanding debt and loans. “Would it hurt the prosecutor too much to also look at the liability column? »
“We are in the affect, the vengeful violence”
The attack is indirect, but violent. The prosecutor, during a long indictment on November 13, shared with her colleague from the prosecution, indicated that she lacked evidence on a case, but had blurted out, “that would hurt me too much” to request release. “Ah, the confession! “, Marine Le Pen immediately jumped out, and the party has been doing it ever since. The word is certainly unfortunate, but it only concerned the obscure contract in 2011 of Jean-François Jalkh, since struck down by a stroke and who will perhaps be judged later, when he was in an inextricable situation since in the at the same time parliamentary assistant to Jean-Marie Le Pen, secretary general of the FN, regional councilor of Lorraine, employed by a consulting firm and by an accounting firm.
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