French far-right leader Marine Le Pen acknowledged a "mistake" at a key appeals trial in Paris. Le Pen admitted on Wednesday ...

A Paris court ruled in March that Le Pen was at the heart of “a fraudulent system” that her party used to siphon off EU ...

The head of her far-right party, Jordan Bardella, warns banning her running for president would be "deeply worrying" for ...

PARIS (AP) — 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 ...

Manuel Bompard speaks alongside other elected representatives of the France Unbowed (LFI) party on Republic Square in Paris, on April 6, 2025. On Sunday, two rival demonstrations took place in Paris, ...

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Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken before a sea of French flags in Paris on Sunday. "For 30 years I have fought ...

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 reposted, ...

President Donald Trump expressed support for former French presidential front-runner and National Rally leader Marine Le Pen after she was banned from running in elections and handed a prison sentence ...

The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample evidence against her. By Roger Cohen Reporting from Paris “FREE MARINE LE PEN!” ...

Marine Le Pen has for years been a superstar of Europe’s far-right movement. That was until this week, when a spectacular court ruling banned her from running in France’s 2027 presidential election — ...

Marine Le Pen, the voice of France’s growing right-wing movement, will appeal her conviction in hopes of overturning the restriction on her ability to run for president of France. Le Pen, the ...