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Marine Le Pen on trial for misuse of EU funds

2024-10-15 07:54:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
Marine Le Pen on trial for misuse of EU funds
French politician Marine Le Pen

French politician Marine Le Pen has reacted against accusations of illegal party financing by members of the European Parliament from her far-right Rally National (RN) party.

Le Pen and more than 20 other senior officials are accused of hiring assistants who worked on party affairs and not for the European Parliament, which paid them.

She told a court in Paris on Monday that parliamentary assistants paid by the Brussels assembly were naturally involved in politics because that was what drew them to the job in the first place.

"Assistants work for their deputies, expanding their ideas," Le Pen said.

"Just look at the number of MPs who started as parliamentary assistants. This is because they are interested in politics.

"I have not committed the smallest irregularity, nor the smallest violation."

Along with 24 other officials named plus the party itself as a legal entity, Le Pen is accused of using EU parliamentary funds to pay the salaries of party workers.

According to the prosecution's case, she presided over a system for several years in which RN staff members from Paris were "undertaken" as EU parliamentary assistants in Brussels.

It is being argued in court that these RN officials, who included Le Pen's bodyguard and a graphic designer in the publicity department, rarely set foot in the EU parliament and had no role there./ CNA





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