Let the defense speak. This Monday sees the opening of a new phase in the trial of the FN’s “European parliamentary assistants”. The defense case will begin. They will last two weeks, until the end of the hearing on November 27. This will mark the end of a judicial marathon. Sign of its importance, the one concerning Marine Le Pen will take place at the very end.

But the “natural” candidate of the Rassemblement National (RN) has not waited for this date, nor for the deliberation date in the spring of 2025, to plead her case herself and save her political future at all costs. The shock of the public prosecutor’s indictment has prompted Marine Le Pen to change the strategy she initiated at the start of her trial: to avoid attacking…