Marine Le Pen believes that justice is calling for a “political death penalty” against her

Prosecutors requested on Wednesday against the former presidential candidate five years in prison, three of which were suspended, a fine of 300,000 euros, and five years of ineligibility, with provisional execution.

She spoke up to defend herself. The leader of the deputies of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, considered that the indictment handed down against her in the context of the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front (former name of the RN) was “revolting”. The far-right elected official claimed that the prosecution had request “the political death penalty” against herFriday November 15 on TF1.

Prosecutors Nicolas Barret and Louise Neyton requested against the former presidential candidate five years in prison, three of which were suspended, a fine of 300,000 euros, and five years of ineligibility, with provisional execution. Thus, if justice followed the prosecution, the sentence would be applied immediately, despite the appeal procedure which could be initiated, enough to prevent the elected official from running in the next presidential election.

This indictment “is profoundly outrageous, because it calls for convictions out of all proportion to the least indictable of the same type”, she also said. “It is not the litigant who is judged, it is the political target.”