“It is my political death that is being demanded,” says Marine le Pen

Marine Le Pen was outraged this Friday, November 15, at the requisitions made by the prosecution on Wednesday in the trial of her party's parliamentary assistants. Guest of 20h of TF1the National Rally MP described this indictment as “revolting”. On Wednesday, the prosecution requested against him five years in prison, a €300,000 fine and five years of ineligibility with provisional execution (that is to say with immediate application even in the event of appeal). “It is my political death that is being demanded,” she said.

“This indictment is revolting, deeply outrageous. He demands convictions which are out of all proportion to the slightest indictment of the same type, going so far as to request the political death penalty with provisional execution against me. she protests. As a reminder, other political figures have already received more severe requisitions, such as François Fillon, sentenced on appeal in 2022 to four years of imprisonment and ten years of ineligibility.

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“Political target”

The prosecution considers that the politician did not provide proof of the work of these parliamentary assistants. Marine le Pen proclaims her innocence. She defends herself from everything “personal enrichment”, sharing a “a feeling of revolt that I feel deeply and millions of French people feel it with me”. “I realized that it was not the litigant who was targeted but the political target who was targeted,” she believes. “The objective is to attack a political opponent”she insists, calling into question the impartiality of the prosecution.

The head of the National Front considered it particularly “shocking” provisional execution of the required ineligibility sentence, preventing her, if convicted, from running for president, which constitutes for her “democratic dysfunction”.

To protest against these requisitions which he judges to be “a blow to the freedom of action and speech of a political movement”, The National Rally launched a petition on Wednesday to support Marine Le Pen.

On Wednesday, prosecutors