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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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". A poll by BFMTV after Monday's ruling showed that many people in France believe that justice was service in the Le Pen case ...

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 ...