“Does the Paris prosecutor’s office want to exclude Marine Le Pen from the democratic game?”

Jean-Eric Schoettl is former secretary general of the Constitutional Council.

On November 13, after eight years of investigation, more than a month of hearings and a few hours of conclusions, the prosecution declined before the Paris criminal court the sentences it requires in the case of the MEPs' assistants. of the National Front (now National Rally). Against Marine Le Pen, it's five years in prison, three of which are suspended, a 300,000 euro fine and five years of ineligibility, with provisional execution; against the twenty-six other defendants (Louis Aliot, Nicolas Bay, Bruno Gollnisch, Julien Odoul, etc.), various sentences of the same ilk; against the party itself, a fine of two million euros.

In its extensive requisitions, the prosecution had little difficulty in dismantling, given the abundance and convergence of the clues, the system organized between 2004 and 2016 by the leaders of the RN to put the assistants of its MEPs to the main service, or even…