Twenty-three other people were convicted on charges related to the scheme to embezzle European Parliament funds. The ruling does not bar Jordan Bardella, Ms. Le Pen’s 29-year-old protégé ...

A French court on Monday convicted Marine Le Pen of embezzlement and barred her from seeking public office for five years -- a hammer blow to the far-right leader's presidential hopes and an ...

Le Pen was the runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, losing to French President Emmanuel Macron.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and 11 others convicted in an embezzlement trial that shook French politics have lodged an appeal, a judicial source said on Friday, April 11. On March 31 ...

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, is barred from running in France’s 2027 presidential election after an embezzlement conviction involving her political party. Roger Cohen, the Paris bureau ...

President Donald Trump blamed French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement conviction on a “witch hunt” by “European leftists” in a post on Truth Social, which his ally Elon Musk ...

Marine Le Pen, the far-right French politician, was banned from running for office Monday after being convicted of embezzlement in criminal court, the Associated Press reported. A Paris court ...

Right-wing politician Marine Le Pen was the polling leader for the 2027 French presidential election after finishing as runner-up in 2017 and 2022.

Le Pen, who ran unsuccessfully for office three times in a row, is seeking to overturn the court’s verdict in time for the 2027 presidential vote. On March 31, 24 people were convicted by a ...

US President Donald Trump called her conviction a "very big deal". A poll by BFMTV after Monday's ruling showed that many people in France believe that justice was service in the Le Pen case ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the courtroom after a French court found her guilty in an embezzlement case in Paris (Thibault Camus/AP) A French court has convicted Marine Le Pen of ...

US President Donald Trump called her conviction a "very big deal". On Sunday, Le Pen appeared via video-link at a congress of Italy's right-wing Lega party, and compared her situation to US civil ...