Prosecutors Seek Five-Year Ineligibility for Marine Le Pen in EU Assistants Appeal, Without Immediate Enforcement

Overview

• The parquet général requested five years of ineligibility, four years in prison with one year firm potentially under electronic monitoring, and a €100,000 fine for Marine Le Pen.
• Prosecutors declined to seek immediate application of any ineligibility, citing no established risk of reoffending and rejecting a major public-order risk.
• The case centers on allegations that from 2004 to 2016 EU assistant funds were used to pay party staff, with prosecutors calling it a structured system and portraying Le Pen as its instigator.
• Le Pen has denied any criminal intent and says she would consider herself prevented from running in 2027 if the court follows the requisitions, though a cassation appeal could suspend enforcement.
• Defense pleadings are underway for Le Pen, the RN and other co-defendants, with the Paris Court of Appeal’s decision due before summer after a six-hour prosecutorial réquisitoire.