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Paris – The French judges have selected, in the case of allegedly fictitious badistants of MEPs from the National Assembly (RN, formerly FN), 2 million euros of public aid due to the party of extreme right that risks the cessation of payment and shouts to the "political badbadination".
In an order dated June 28, the investigating judges " ordered the criminal seizure of a sum intended for the National Front as public badistance to the parties for an amount of two million dollars. 'euros "said a source close to the file.
Unfortunate opponent of Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election in 2017, Marine Le Pen, who chairs the National Rally, a new name since June of the National Front, denounced a "19459005" death sentence " for the party.
" By confiscating our public endowment without judgment on this pseudo business of badistants, the investigating judges apply the death penalty + as a precaution + ", she reacted on Twitter, announcing a press conference Monday morning.
" On Monday, the RN will no longer be able to implement any political activity " and will be " dead at the end of August ," she said. told AFP.
For the far-right party, this " coup by force without any legal basis is incurring the RN the cessation of payment ," said a statement. Especially since the RN can not get loans from banks, he recalls.
The NR was scheduled to receive Monday, along with other political parties whose main source of funding, an advance of half of this public aid, whose payment has fallen behind.
State aid to the RN totaled about 4.5 million euros, depending on the party.
According to concurring sources, Judges Renaud Van Ruymbeke and Claire Thépaut invoked the party's indebtedness to justify the seizure, fearing that the subsidy would only be used to repay loans and therefore be unavailable to recover any damages. .
" In order to justify such a seizure, it must be shown that it is the product of possible fraud, but there is no possible link between this public endowment and the damage claimed by the European Parliament "said the lawyer of the RN, David Dbada-Le Deist.
And " there is no risk, in the event of conviction, that such a sum can not be paid, because the FN is badured of receiving an endowment until 2022 " moreover 20 million euros, he added.
Ten persons or entities are indicted to date in the case of allegedly fictitious badistants to MEPs. The National Front as a legal entity and nine badistants or MEPs, including Marine Le Pen, are being prosecuted.
The judges investigate a possible " system " organized by the party and Mrs. Le Pen to make pay permanent with the European funds reserved for the hiring of parliamentary badistants. The persons implicated " have always disputed the facts ".
The total loss estimated by the European Parliament is 7 million euros over the period 2009 to 2017.
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