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In 2015, like other small hands whose trial opens on September 30 in Paris, the young Le Penist was paid by Europe but employed by the RN. To camouflage this fictitious employment, the current president of the party helped produce false proof of work, reveals a book to be published.
Fake agenda, backdated press review and initialed by his hand… False proof of work was fabricated by the ex-FN to fool the justice system and justify the job that Jordan Bardella held at the time he was the parliamentary assistant of a Frontist MEP, in 2015. On September 30, the trial of the ex-Front National, now the Rassemblement National, opens before the Paris Criminal Court, in which the far-right party and 27 of its members or ex-members, including Marine Le Pen, will be tried for having participated in a vast alleged system of embezzlement of public funds. These executives or ex-executives of the Le Pen movement risk up to ten years in prison and a fine of up to 1 million euros, accompanied by a five-year ineligibility sentence, which could be decisive for Marine Le Pen’s political future. Eleven RN MEPs or former MEPs are concerned, and thirteen of their assistants. Jordan Bardella, current president of the party, could also have been part of the long list of people dismissed. But the absentee, of size
