In an interview given to TF1 this Friday, November 15, the leader of the French far right Marine Le Pen estimated that we are calling for her “ political death », after the sentence of ineligibility with immediate execution which was requested against her by prosecutors during the trial of the assistants of MEPs from her party. The prosecution also requested five years’ imprisonment for him, including two years, and a fine of 300,000 euros.
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“ My political survival, obviously, will depend on the implementation of this political death sentence, with provisional execution or not. », estimated Marine Le Pen during an interview on Friday November 15 on French television TF1.
“And this is, I believe, the goal since the start of this operation which was launched by a socialist, Mr. [Martin] Schulz, [à l’époque] President of the European Parliament, in agreement with the socialist Madame [Christiane] Taubira, Minister of Justice at the time» in Franceshe continued.
By evoking an indictment “outrageous» And “incommensurate with the slightest indictment of the same type“, the French MP expressed a “feeling of revolt”, according to her also felt by “millions of French people“, “and even beyond my own political camp, since the indignation aroused by this indictment has somehow crossed the entire political class“.
A “political target»
Many French political figures, including former Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin from President Macron’s party, have expressed their reservations about the idea of a sentence of ineligibility with immediate effect.
“In reality, I realized that it was not the litigant who was being judged, that it was the political target who was being judged.“, protested the woman who appeared alongside 24 other defendants, suspected of having hired assistants to MEPs whose missions were in fact for the sole benefit of the far-right party.
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Asked about a desire to “put pressure on justice“, while her party the National Rally launched an online petition to protest against these requisitions of the prosecution, Marine Le Pen responded “never in life“.
“But it was necessary to give the opportunity to those who were outraged […] to express this indignation, but in the most peaceful way possible, that is to say through a petition», She again justified herself.