Patrick Maisonneuve has that affable, easy-to-caress tone, as if ultimately all of this were not a tragedy, but his claw strikes are deadly. The lawyer of the European Parliament brought to light, before the criminal court of Paris, on Tuesday, November 12, in an hour of arguments, all the ridiculousness of the defense of those accused in the trial of the parliamentary assistants of the National Front ( FN), and the demonstration is cruel.
Nicolás Bay, first. He is a deputy, representative of the nation, the lawyer insisted, and to demonstrate that his assistant had worked well in the European Parliament, “He did not hesitate to present press reviews reconstructed after the fact to the investigating judges”. Yann Maréchal wrote, when he was offered a contract with his sister Marine Le Pen: “it will be seen”, “discretion is not total”worrying “afflictions” of his contract, while he was at the party headquarters, he dealt with large demonstrations. “As for Wallerand de Saint Just, insists mmy new househe was asked to be assistant to deputy Philippe Loiseau, appointed volunteer. It’s a bit curious for a party treasurer, a member of the executive office. And when someone says “it’s a little big,” the defense claims it was a little big in terms of budget! You have to dare…”
The most serious arrow is for Julien Odoul, who dreamed of working in Marine Le Pen’s office. The chief of staff wrote to him: “Ugh, okay, the financial agreement is in a week. » “Alleluia! »answered the young man. And when he learned that Europe would pay him, he wrote: “No problem, I am very motivated to work at the firm and she will not regret it”. The rest is to follow, “Mr Odoul, who was supposed to have been hired for more than four months as an assistant, wrote to Marine Le Pen: “I would like to get to know the European Parliament. And that would allow me to meet the deputy to whom I am attached.”remembers the lawyer without mercy. Laughter in the room, not on the defense benches.
“Fictional jobs”
“Mr Odoul is a French deputy, the lawyer gravely remembers, and spokesperson for his party. What an image this conveys! We can directly mock the court. We have no problem saying that judges are lax, but he is incapable of having a minimum of respect for judicial authority. » For the civil party, this is effectively a ” system “ highlighting the treasurer’s note that assures: “We will only get out of this if we achieve significant savings in the European Parliament”.
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