French prosecutors request Marine Le Pen be banned from public office

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/11/13/far-right-fake-jobs-trial-french-prosecutors-request-marine-le-pen-be-banned-from-election-to-office_6732729_7.html

by LeMonde_en

21 comments

  1. Who would have thought, after first borrowing money from the Russians.

    Don’t know if this is strategically a smart thing to do though. It will enable her and her party to play the national sacrificial lamb for the years to come.

  2. Populists on the rise, trump, afd, le pen etc. Make them illegal. That’ll help. 🤡👌

  3. The French doing what the Americans should’ve done with Trump…

  5. How did this not happen to trump? Trump and musk are the kremlins fifth column

  6. In front of the cameras, it’s pretty obvious she’s trying to pull a Trump-like martyr one…

  7. No one who respects democracy can support this. It’s happening in Germany with the AfD, and it happened in the USA. It seems that if your opponent is winning elections, the solution is to ban them. This appears to be the current view of the left. Ironically, it’s the left that often labels their opponents as fascists. Can you imagine the outcry if a right-wing party tried to ban a leftist party from participating in democratic elections? They would immediately be labeled as fascists. The irony doesn’t go unnoticed.

  8. Why journalists write such low quality articles, like they were written by AI? Where did the investigation journalism go, is it dead???

    Where are the exact numbers and the exact evidence which the prosecutors have?

    The public must know about them, otherwise there is a high risk Le Pen becomes a martyr in the eyes of the public and unless she is convicted, you can bet she will get elected!

  9. Giving the populist opposition, which is the most popular political party in the country, a reason to depict themselves as martyrs is a recipe for great success, right. Right ?

  10. You r/europe upstanding left-leaning decent Trump-hating folks are really itching to ban your opponents and throw them in jail, aren’t you? Everyone you don’t like is some russian sleeper agent as well, really convenient. You would all have made fine snitches and kommisars in the good ol’ USSR. My hat’s off to the lot of you.

    Oh btw, what happens with the voters when you jail their despicable candidates? They will disappear somehow?

  12. what’s the point ? she already appointed the heir to her party.
    FYI, this is the daughter of the previous famous nazi Jean-Marie le Pen, and she fired him from the party immediately when fingers started pointing

  14. Lawfare in its purest form, the prosecutor is a traitor to France for this blatant political hitjob.

    They tried the same with Trump, and that resulted in a trifecta.

  15. The “left” have their own demons in the US, but you don’t need to look too hard to see that their conservatives are still shadowboxing “cancel culture” and “wokeness”, they’re still talking about Epstein as if Trump wasn’t his buddy, they’re still seething about Soros or Bill Gates or whoever while conveniently overlooking the fact that Musk is *openly* doing everything they accuse other billioids of doing. I could go on forever.

    There might be some arguments against prosecuting LePen, against outlawing AfD and so on. I don’t know what those may be from a legal point of view, but them becoming “martyrs” isn’t one. They’re living martyrs in their head anyway, a bunch of sycophants in a perpetual state of imaginary victimhood even when they’re in power. Might as well bring the hammer down on them.

  16. I hope this goes farther than what went on with the Qatargate corruption scandal, but I have my doubts.

  17. Christine LaGarde funneled 400.000.000€ of illegal compensation to a company and was “Found guilty…no chages”

    Now she is in charge of ECB.

    [https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/christine-lagarde-gericht-spricht-iwf-chefin-der-fahrlaessigkeit-schuldig-a-1126512.html](https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/christine-lagarde-gericht-spricht-iwf-chefin-der-fahrlaessigkeit-schuldig-a-1126512.html)

    Media stop waving the idea around that established rich or powerful people actually are accountable.

  18. It’s actually an automatic part of the sentence for that kind of crime, which is just and logical.

  19. Clearly the charges sound thin, looks like more attempts to prevent people from voting

  20. Some years ago I watched an interview with her on one the French TV channels. The interviewer asked her what was she thinking about the Russian election results where Putin had won with 70% and above (not this year’s but the previous elections for Russian president).

    She replied something of the sort : “If he won with such a big result, it means he has very high approval from a lot of the voters.”

    I literally facepalmed about her saying this, technically admitting she is a Russian proxy.

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