The Paris prosecutor on Wednesday requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, at a trial where she and 24 others are accused of embezzling European Union funds.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Don’t get my hopes up I’m sick of these Hitler Youth getting off the hook at the last moment.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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      20 days ago

      Don’t get them, even if she goes down, the number 2 of this party is much younger so he wasn’t involved in this and he could take her place easily. In my opinion he’s more dangerous, he doesn’t have the stain of the Le Pen name, he’s 29 and he has avoided stupid political mistakes/crimes so far as far as I know. He’s part of the party’s new “impeccable” generation created by Marine Le Pen learning from her father’s mistakes (such as being openly racist in the media).

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      20 days ago

      And it just seems to feed their supporters’ persecution fetish, as it did with Trump.