Marine Le Pen and other French right-wing nationalists are on trial in Paris from today on charges that they received funding for non-existent European Parliament staff. In addition to Le Pen, head of the National Alarm (RN) party, her father and party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen is also among the 28 people accused of misusing public funds. Marine Le Pen denies the charges, which relate to the years from 2004 to 2016 and are directed against both the National Alarm party and against former elected officials and their aides. It concerns the protested virtual employment of assistants of French MEPs. The central charge is that Le Pen’s party received money from the European Parliament for parliamentary assistants, who actually worked for the party. The case is said to involve an amount of almost 7 million euros. Le Pen returned 330,000 euros to the European Parliament a year ago. However, her party had emphasized that this does not constitute an admission of wrongdoing. OR […]
Source: News Beast
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