“Marine Le Pen suffers disproportionate judicial harassment”

LE FIGARO. – The news was marked by the arrest of the Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal. As honorary president of the France-Algeria Association, what does this event inspire you? ?

JEAN-PIERRE CHEVÈNEMENT. – I urge Algeria, a country which knows the price of freedom, to respect freedom of expression and opinion, in particular that of a writer. The Algerian authorities would be honored to release, without delay, Boualem Sansal, to which we strongly call with the president and successive presidents of the France-Algeria Association.

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As part of the trial of the FN parliamentary assistants, the Paris prosecutor's office requested against Marine Le Pen five years in prison, three of which are suspended, 300,000 fine of euros and five years of ineligibility with provisional execution. How do you view these requisitions? ?

The excessive penalization of public life is an aspect of what we call the government of judges. Marine Le Pen, like other political figures before her, suffers legal harassment that is disproportionate to what she is accused of. How can we justify by the misused use of parliamentary assistants the ban on running in the presidential election, and this without possible appeal, to a person who was already a candidate in this election where he received several million votes?