understand everything at the trial which opens this Monday – Libération

From Monday September 30, around thirty people linked to the RN will respond to accusations of embezzlement of public funds. “Libération” gives you all the keys to this very sensitive issue for the far-right party.

On Monday, September 30, the trial of the alleged fictitious assistants of the National Front, now the National Rally, begins before the Paris Criminal Court. A procedure in which, in addition to the RN, 28 people are being prosecuted, including Marine Le Pen, mainly for alleged acts of embezzlement of public funds, concealment or complicity in embezzlement of public funds. Most of them risk sentences of up to ten years’ imprisonment, a fine of one million euros and a five-year ineligibility sentence. The trial will last two months. Release offers you below an interactive infographic and the answers to several essential questions, to understand everything about this high-stakes affair for the far-right party.

What is it about?

The case of the fictitious parliamentary assistants of the FN (now RN), whose trial begins on September 30 in Paris, is a case of alleged embezzlement of public funds. She tells how the Lepéniste party monopolized the resources allocated by the European Parliament to finance its own apparatus.