Demonstration of support for Marine Le Pen in Paris, with participation under expectations. Nor the progressive countermane was more successful
Marine Le Pen, at the rally organized in her photo support: Vernier Jean-Bernard / JBV News / Abaca / Abaca Press / Profimedia
The leader of the extreme French right, Marine Le Pen, who can no longer run for the presidential elections in 2027 after being sentenced Monday for hijacking of funds of the European Parliament, denounced a political motivated sentence on Sunday, in a speech before its sympathizers reunited to a protest in Paris, the AGPs and EFEs report.
“This was not a decision of justice, but a political decision”, which “defies not only the rule of law, but also the state of democracy,” said Marine Le Pen in front of the protesters gathered in the Vauban Square, near Napoleon Bonaparte's mausoleum.
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Considering a victim of a “witch hunter”, an expression used by US President Donald Trump in a support message to her, she still rejected any “spirit of rebellion”, thus urging protests without violence.
During the rally, which took part in about 10,000 people, a presence below expectations that left a lot of space in the market that was more roomy, were broadcast video support for Marine Le Pen from several conservative politicians, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
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She also made a parallel with the latter case, which is tried in Italy because she refused to land an NGO that was to land illegal. Marine Le Pen has thus criticized the “brutality” of the European Union, denouncing a tendency to eliminate the politicians not passed by Brussels.
For his part, Jordan Bardella, the president of the party he leads with Marine Le Pen, the National Assembly, and who is considered the most likely replacement in the future presidential elections, described in his intervention the sentence against Marine Le Pen as “a black day in the history of France” and a day “.
Countermanestation with low participation
In parallel with this rally, about five kilometers away, less than 5,000 progressive protesters, also under the presence of the organizers, gathered in the Republic Square for a counter-humanifestation for the defense of the “rule of law”. A counter -humanization was also organized by the formation “Renaissance”, the Liberal Party of President Emmanuel Macron, in the Parisian suburb Saint Denis. “If you steal, you pay. Especially if you are a political manager,” said former prime minister Gabriel Attal, who welcomed the conviction of the extreme right.
Marine Le Pen was sentenced Monday by a court in Paris to a period of five -year ineligibility with immediate execution and a four -year sentence of detention, of which two with execution, in which it can be monitored at home with the help of an electronic bracelet.
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The conviction, which also includes a fine of 100,000 euros, was pronounced in a file of fundraising of the European Parliament, respectively the classification in this institution as assistants of MEPs of persons who worked for the National Assembly. Eight former MEPs of this party were also convicted in the same file.
Marine Le Pen has submitted an appeal, so that until the definitive sentence is pronounced the criminal punishment will be suspended, but not the decision regarding the political ineligibility, so it will no longer be able to apply for the presidential elections in 2027, unless a definitive sentence will come that will no longer provide for a public.
