European funds/RN: Marine Le Pen ready to explain herself at her trial

(Keystone-ATS) The RN has “not violated any rules” and Marine Le Pen “will answer all questions” from the court. Wanting to be calm on Monday at the opening of the trial, she must answer with 24 other people, for misappropriation of funds from the European Parliament to pay RN employees.

At the opening of the hearing around 1:45 p.m., the president called the defendants one after the other to the stand. Marine Le Pen walks slowly forward, black suit on her back.

“I will answer all the questions that the court wants to ask me,” assures the woman who cannot help but stiffen up when reading the offenses with which she is accused.

Like the party’s former number 2 Bruno Gollnisch, who recalls that he “always receives threats”, she asks to be able not to give her personal address at the bar.

Before entering the room of the Paris criminal court, which will host for two months this trial with heavy political stakes for the leader of the French extreme right, she said in front of the crowd of journalists makes it “serene”. “We didn’t break any rules,” she said.