Marine Le Pen clearly felt we had to take back control. “I had the impression, on many occasions, that your opinion was already formedstated the former leader of the National Rally (RN) before the court. There are people in front of you who have words of iron, others who are inaudible. » The president evidently protested, but it is not a lie, since the parade of defendants in the trial of FN attendees to the European Parliament left, after seventeen days of hearing, an overwhelming impression of implausible statements and clumsy lies.
Marine Le Pen, already prosecuted as the author of “embezzlement of public funds” for having hired her bodyguard, her sister, her secretary and her father’s secretary in Strasbourg, was declared on Tuesday, November 5, as an “accomplice” of the embezzlements, since she led the party from 2011 to 2021. The Pas de Calais deputy, who had been around for some time, flew over the public with a certain talent, intact energy and a constructed, although not always convincing, speech.
For an hour and a half, he gave his vision of the case, before responding, step by step, to the court, without giving an inch of ground. “Among the tens of thousands of messages from the party, the investigating judges extracted a dozen emails, suspicious or clumsy, which we used to demonstrate the existence of a system”attacked the deputy. This system, which she supposedly organized after Jean-Marie Le Pen, is based on a series of elements that she tried to exclude.
“Unofficially, but not covert”
Firstly, “pooling”, theoretically prohibited, which requires an assistant to work for his only deputy. “In 2014 we had 23 elected representatives, while before there were 3, so we had 20 rookie deputies, attacked Marine Le Pen. To form a group there must be 25, which allows us to have around fifty employees working for the entire group. We were not registered, we were forced to pool. Some assistants worked for various deputies, unofficially, but not covertly. And the European Parliament found nothing wrong with that. »
“Centralization”, then. All FN deputies (except two) have given powers to a single assistant to manage relations with the administration and the ” third party payer », the accounting firm close to the FN in charge of finances. “Centralization is in the culture of our movement, gets angryme LePen. The deputies found it easier and more convenient for Parliament, and not once did they come to tell us that there were too many proxies. I do not see how powers of attorney and payment of third parties can constitute the beginning of the beginning of a suspicion. »
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