At the FN trial, a delicate plea for “the bodyguard”

It is not always enviable to be taller than others: you attract more attention. Thierry Légier is well placed to know this. His shaved head shimmers much higher than those – more or less trimmed – of the other defendants in the so-called “FN parliamentary assistants” trial. During the debates, the one that everyone identifies as “the bodyguard” of Jean-Marie, then of Marine Le Pen, tried to convince the court that he was really a parliamentary assistant to MEP Fernand Le Rachinel then of the party's co-founder. With questionable happiness.

It was up to his lawyer on Monday to plead for Mr. Légier, against whom the prosecution requested an 18-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 70,000 euros and two years of ineligibility. A sentence which, if it were pronounced, could appear on his criminal record and sign his “professional death” as an armed close protection agent (Apra). M^e Solange Doumic begins, one could say, her pleading with…