US President Donald Trump and right-wing leaders in Europe have the decision of a court to prohibit the French hard-law leader Marine Le Pen to prohibit walking for the presidency.
Le Pen on Monday was convicted of creating fake courts in the EU parliament and benefited from costs for assistants who actually worked for her party in France.
The Matriarch of the Hard -Reight National Rally (RN) party was excluded from running five years and was sentenced to four years, although she will not go to prison because half of it was suspended and the rest is served with an electronic tag.
Twenty -four people, including Le Pen, were convicted – all RN party officials or assistants.
Rn -President Jordan Bardella stated: “Everything will be done to prevent us from coming to power,” in an interview with French media.
“Today it is not only Marine Le Pen who was wrongly convicted: it was the French democracy that was killed.”
He continued to explode the 'Tyranny of the judges' and stated that the RN and his supporters would have a peaceful protest this weekend – although he also convicted the 'non -obvious … very personal attacks on the judges' convicted after reports they had received death threats.
Le Pen has already promised to combat the prohibition imposed by the court that seemed to exclude her goal to find out and possibly win the French presidency in 2027, with her lawyer to ask for the profession for those elections.
Trump said that the Le Pen -belief was a “very important issue” and pulled parallels with his own legal fights in the US that destroyed his presidential campaign.
The American president said in the White House yesterday: “[Le Pen] Was forbidden for five years and she was the leading candidate.
“That sounds like this country, that sounds a lot on this country.”
Jordan Bardella, president of the French extreme right-wing National Rally (Rassemblement National-RN) political party, arrives at the headquarters of the RN Party, one day after the French extreme right leader Marine Le Pen was found guilty of the eclipse of EU funds of five years, 202, France, France55
President of Rassemblement National Parliamentary Group Marine Le Pen (L) speaks to French extreme right -wing Rassemblement National (National Rally) RN Parties's President and Lead EP Jordan Bardella
The experienced extreme right-wing politician was convicted of creating fake courts in the EU parliament to channel funds to her party to hire people in France on March 31, 2025
Trump said that the Le Pen order was a 'very important issue' and pulled parallels with his own legal fights in the US that destroyed his presidential campaign
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the statement against Le Pen millions of voters in France and the EU.
“I don't know the merits of the accusations to Marine Le Pen, or the reasons for such a strong decision,” Meloni, leader of the brothers of Italy, told Il Messaggero.
“But I think nobody who cares about democracy can look forward to a sentence that focuses on the leader of a large party and robs millions of citizens of representation.”
Meloni's Deputy Prime Minister, competition leader Matteo Salvini, had called the sentence on Monday a 'Declaration of War through Brussels'.
'In Paris they condemned Marine Le Pen and would like to exclude her from political life. A bad film that we also see in other countries such as Romania, “wrote Salvini on social media.
He called it a declaration of war through Brussels, at a time when the war instincts of Von der Leyen and Macron are frightening. We don't let ourselves be intimidated, we don't stop: full speed ahead my friend! '
The Eurosceptic Salvini often reaches EU chef Ursula von der Leyen, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron.
His competition is part of the same European parliament block as the party of Le Pen, Patriots for Europe, and the two leaders are closely linked.
Elsewhere, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban placed in the French 'Je Suis Marine' ('I am Marine') – a play on a social media campaign 'Je Suis Charlie' when people showed solidarity with the victims of the terror attack on satirical journal Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
Russia also waded in, with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov who told reporters: 'More and more European capitals are moving on trampling on democratic standards.
“Of course we don't want to interfere with the internal affairs of France, we have never done that … But in general our observations of European capitals show that they are not at all reluctant to go beyond democracy during the political process.”
In the light of widespread criticism from Trump and European right -wing leaders, one of the two best public prosecutors in France denied that there was a political element for Monday's decision.
“Justice is not political, this is not a political decision but a legal decision, supplied by three independent, impartial judges,” Remy Heitz told RTL RadioStation.
But anti-corruption judge Benedicte De Perthuis, who provides the case, was placed under armed guard after she received death threats.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her deputy Matteo Salvini said the statement against Le Pen has detached millions of voters in France and the EU
Several right -wing politicians came out to support Le Pen
Le Pen and more than 20 other party officials were found guilty of stealing millions of pounds in taxpayers from the European taxpayer on Monday
President of the French extreme right -wing party Rassemblement National (RN) and Mep Jordan Bardella (L) and president of the parliamentary group of the French extreme right -wing Rassemblement National (RN) Party, Marine le Pen
The judge said in the conclusion of comments after the judgment's judgments: “The court took into account the risk of recurrence, the major disruption of public order if a person had already been convicted … A candidate was in the presidential election.”
In the aftermath of her ruling, Le Pen Judge accused the perthhuis of 'that I want to prevent myself from running and being elected to be elected in the presidential election' and 'Breaking the law'.
But in a statement released on Monday, Jacques Boulard, the first president of the Parisian Court of Appeal, called for 'respect for the judicial system'.
Judge Boulard regretted “countless remarks, but also, especially on social media, personal attacks on the three judges who form the collegial body.”
He expressed his 'deep concern' and said that in a democratic state ruled by the rule of law, criticism of a court decision cannot be expressed by threats against judges under any circumstances. '
The French Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, also said that the threats 'worried about the independence of the judicial authority'.
