Marine Le Pen received a conditional sentence and a ban on candidate. Judges face threats, the President of the Court has police protection.
On Tuesday, the French police detained a 76-year-old man who threatened the death of the President of the Court in the case of the far-right party National Association (RN) and its leader Marina Le Pen. Informed AFP, writes TASR.
Senior from the Paris suburbs La Garenne-Colombes, after publishing a judgment over Le Penová and RN, published on his account on his network X Status: “What this bitch deserves” and attached a photo of the guillotine. The police detained the police for suspicion of threatening the judge by death and contempt for the court.
Marine Le Pen and other former and current members of the National Association (RN) leadership were 31 March by the Court of Paris recognized as guilty of the embezzlement of the European Parliament’s finances. The politician was sentenced to four years of imprisonment – however, it is not possible: for two years her sentence will be conditional, the next two years should have an electronic bracelet. At the same time, the court ordered her to pay a fine of EUR 100,000 and gave her a five -year ban on the elected office.
Since the granting of this judgment, the judges who issued the decision, and in particular the chairwoman 11. Some were so serious that the President of the Court received police protection.
The threats published on social networks began to be dealt with by the prosecutor’s office in Bobigna in the metropolitan area of Paris. According to the prosecutor’s office findings, such cases could be prosecuted as cyberbullying, threatening death, public insults and publishing personal information that pose a risk of injury or property. The aggravating circumstance is that all injured persons are state administration employees.
LE Parisien added that the prosecutor’s office has been held since the beginning of this year in another similar case: these are death threats that were published on the far right Riposte Laaque website.
The threats concerned a judge and two prosecutors who raised charges against the defendants, including Le Pen. Five suspects were identified by the interrogation.
