Marine Le Pen's sentence shocks Europe: "Lawfare"

Published 2 april, 2025 • 255 Views

The National Rally’s frontrunner for the French presidential election in 2027 Marine Le Pen was unfairly targeted and sentenced in a highly politicised trial over fraud, that now bans her from running for an elected office for five years. A scandalous attempt to silence one of the most well-known nationalist voices in Europe, says her sympathisers. Scarlett Karoleva speaks to Brice Hamard, executive director of the Impulsion Gaulliste think tank and legal expert.