Of course if you challenge the power structure, you’re fucked.
Same old fascist playbook. Prosecute your opponents into jail and/or bankruptcies.
Marine Le Pen faces fraud probe for 'illegal financing'
French hard-right leader Marine Le Pen faces fraud probe for 'illegal financing
French criminal prosecutors today opened an investigation into ‘illegal financing’ by
Marine Le Pen and her far-Right National Rally party.
It followed them being beaten into third place in parliamentary elections held over the weekend.
Judicial sources in Paris on Tuesday confirmed that the new criminal enquiry related to Ms Le Pen’s attempt to become
President of France in 2022.
‘A judicial investigation was opened after a report to the courts from the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing,’ said one.
The enquiry is believed to be related to the RN (for Rassemblement National – French for National Rally) allegedly wrongly using taxpayer-generated funds from the European Parliament.
Ms Le Pen is already facing a criminal sanction and a ban on standing for elected office if she is found guilty following an embezzlement trial which opens in Paris in September.