Invited to appear on the TF1 news on Friday evening, following the prosecutor’s closing arguments in the FN parliamentary assistantsMarine Le Pen ruled that the sentences requested were “revolting(es) and “outrageous”.

“This indictment goes so far as to call for the political death penalty (…) against me”, she assured. “We haven’t broken any French laws”. or the European Parliament,” insisted Marine Le Pen. This feeling of indignation, “millions of French people feel it with me”.she also declared. “It’s not the defendant who’s on trial, but the political target”.added the president of the RN group in the National Assembly.

“Organized system”

At the trial of the parliamentary assistants, the public prosecutor, judging Marine Le Pen at “center” of a “organized system” aimed at making the European Parliament the “cash cow of the RN, handed down a severe sentence on Wednesday: five years’ imprisonment (three suspended), a 300,000-euro fine… and five years’ ineligibility with provisional execution – i.e. with immediate application even in the event of an appeal – which could eject him from the presidential race if the judges follow the prosecutors.

“Support Marine! Defend democracy!The party with the flame didn’t hesitate to launch a petition on the social network X on Thursday denouncing “a manifest interference in the organization of parliamentary life in defiance of the separation of powers”., “an attempt to eliminate the voice of the real opposition” and to “bypass the democratic process”. The RN “is down on one knee”, also assured Jordan Bardella on CNews, denouncing an exercise “not of justice but of vengeance”. against Marine Le Pen.