French far-right leader denies embezzling EU funds and compares European parliament to a ‘blob’
Marine Le Pen arriving at the court in Paris on Monday. She told the court: ‘Everything we did, we had the right to do.’Marine Le Pen arriving at the court in Paris on Monday. She told the court: ‘Everything we did, we had the right to do.’when questioned in court for the first time, and used her appearance in the dock to attack the European parliament as a slow-moving, alien “blob”.
Asked about the alleged fraud on Monday, Le Pen, 56, replied: “Everything we did, we had the right to do.” She added: “I have absolutely no sense of having committed the slightest irregularity, or the slightest illegal act.” “The European parliament is a bit like watching out for the Blob,” she told the court, referring to the 1958 film about an amoeboid alien that devours and dissolves everything in its path.
Le Pen is on trial alongside her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who founded the FN; her sister Yann Le Pen; Louis Aliot, the RN vice-president and mayor of Perpignan, and two RN MPs, Julien Odoul and Timothée Houssin.The allegations about fake jobs emerged in January 2014 when the European Anti-Fraud Office received an anonymous tipoff about possible fraud and “fictitious employment”.
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