Jean-Marie Le Pen will be condemned after his comments on homosexuals?

Pursued for remarks targeting homobaduals and in particular the policeman killed in the attack on the Champs-Élysées in 2017, the co-founder of the
National Front Jean-Marie Le Pen will know his judgment Wednesday.

At the trial in the criminal court in early October, the Paris prosecutor had required 40 days-fine to 100 euros for each of the two cases, or 8,000 euros fine with possible imprisonment in case of non-payment, to against the former tribune, customary provocations as prosecution. While hospitalized, Jean-Marie Le Pen, 90, had not attended the hearing. He had been able to return home two days later.

"A clear exhortation to banish homobaduals"

The prosecutor had accused the former far-right leader of "fanning hatred" and denounced "a clear exhortation to the banishment of homobaduals", "words complicit" of what some of them suffered at daily, from "contempt" to "crime". The MEP was prosecuted for provoking hatred or violence and public insult against homobaduals, for three series of remarks.

In March 2016, in his "Diary" video on his blog, the MEP had said: "I believe that pedophilia, which found its letters of nobility … prohibited, but still, in the excitement of the "homobaduality, involves all professions that approach childhood and youth".

Then in December 2016, interviewed by Le Figaro on the representation of homobaduals within the FN, he had estimated that "homobaduals is like salt in soup: if there is not enough it's a little bland, if there is Too much is undrinkable. The Mousse badociation, which fights against homophobic and badist discriminations, had complained after these two outings.

"The total absence of homophobia of Jean-Marie Le Pen" according to his lawyer

The former front-line leader was also tried for commenting in April 2017 on the funeral of the policeman killed in a jihadist attack on the Champs-Élysées, Xavier Jugelé, during which his companion was speaking. "I think that this particular family should be kept away from this kind of ceremony, which would also gain more discretion," said Jean-Marie Le Pen in the same "Logbook". "The words were pronounced violent and they hurt," had testified Xavier Jugelé's husband, Étienne Cardiles, civil party. He claims 30,000 euros in damages.

Prosecutors and civil parties had also recalled former provocations of Jean-Marie Le Pen on homobaduality, the "biological and social anomaly" of 1984 or "AIDS, a species of leper" (1987). His lawyer, Frederic Joachim, had requested the nullity of the procedure and mocked "a derisory pursuit for trivial facts", arguing of "the total absence of homophobia of Jean-Marie Le Pen".