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A week after the start of their trial for fictitious jobs, the defense of Marine Le Pen and the RN requested a referral to the judge on Monday.
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The defense of Marine Le Pen and the National Rally, tried since last week alongside 24 other people for suspicion of fictitious employment as assistants to European deputies, requested on Monday a postponement of the trial. She denounced “an enlargement” during the hearing of the alleged facts.
The defense lawyers arrived on Monday armed with their “conclusions” and their requests for referral, inviting the prosecution to seize the investigating judges again so that they finally give a “precise, invariable, intangible interpretation” of what must be judged.
“Euromillions”
The defense thus discovered that the court had seen much broader than they thought, retaining all the contracts of the period – not to blame the defendants, but the National Rally, as a legal person and in the name of the “system » management of parliamentary envelopes which would have been put in place in the party.
With the consequence of a jump in the estimated damage – 4.5 million euros (4.2 million francs), while the European Parliament, civil party to the trial, spoke more of three million.
For the prosecution and the European Parliament, it’s “the Euromillion!”, says the lawyer for the National Rally (formerly National Front), Me David Dassa Le Deist.
“The Euromillion was more for the FN, from 2004 to 2016,” replies the lawyer of the European Parliament, Me Patrick Maisonneuve, insisting that his estimates were only a “project” – that it will not be missed not “improve, and clearly”, he adds with a greedy smile.
It’s “judicial schizophrenia”, denounces Marine Le Pen’s lawyer, Me Rodolphe Bosselut, estimating that the leader of the far right will now have to explain the parliamentary assistant contracts for which she had been cleared after a 10-year investigation. He warns that he will tell his client not to answer questions about these contracts.
“The prosecutions are neither imprecise nor unpredictable,” replies prosecutor Louise Neyton with a weary air, speaking of “classic jurisprudence” to all cases similar to multiple prosecutions. But “he who tries nothing, gets nothing, with a misunderstanding it can work.”
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