The defense is a bit paradoxical: the lawyers of the National Group (RN) They have chosen to undermine from within the entire file of the party’s assistants in the European Parliament, in an ever-increasing disorder and with dubious effectiveness. In reality, it is about breaking with the idea that the National Front (former RN) had established a financing system in Brussels and, above all, about preserving the candidate in the presidential elections. And shame about the collateral damage, the defendants’ case is barely mentioned and almost not defended. Most of the defendants did not come to listen to their lawyers, which is fortunate for their morale.
Thus, after Mᵉ François Wagner defended four people alone On Monday, Nicolay Fakiroff advocated, on Tuesday, November 19, for three clients at the same time, and no less important: three MEPs at the time, Louis Aliot, today number two of the RN, and two former vice presidents of the party, Nicolas Bay. and Bruno Gollnisch. The lawyer had a kind word for his clients: “The unstoppable Gollnisch, the bard of the Gallic people”the one who usually ends up gagged Asterix ; Luis Aliot, “so expansive, so affable, that he maintains a stubborn silence” while his assistant “eased his conscience” ; and Nicolas Bay, whose lawyer points out that he presented a false file, in case the court had forgotten it.
Mᵉ Fakiroff insisted for two hours on two strong points, which “having vertebrated” his reflection. “Marine Le Pen said it, but who does the deputy work for? Is it for himself? It has a political, constitutional vision of the parties, which contribute to the expression of suffrage and organize it freely. » Then, Guillaume L’Huillier, Bruno Gollnisch’s first assistant, “Who exclaimed: “It is not because one is a parliamentary assistant that one becomes an activist, it is because one is an activist that one becomes a parliamentary assistant.” ». In short, the deputy necessarily does politics, and so does his assistant. From there to Parliament paying him to work for the party, there is a step that Mᵉ Fakiroff was careful not to take.
Perpignan town hall in balance
He minimized “Fraud on an unprecedented scale” underlined by the Prosecutor’s Office, dividing the 4.6 million euros embezzled by the total number of deputies per year, less the sums already reimbursed, to arrive at a total of 22,000 euros per year and per deputy. While Parliament’s budget is 2.5 billion euros. “Where do your taxes go? »The lawyer was outraged. He considered that the prosecution’s requests were “unworthy”just good to deliver “certificates of infamy”in particular Bruno Gollisch, with a ruling of ineligibility while “his political future is behind him » and that he only aspires to be a municipal councilor of his town of 600 inhabitants.
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