The correctional court of Paris will decide Tuesday morning on the matter of campaign kits of the National Front (FN) to 2012 parliamentary.
The seven protagonists, and three persons, including the FN, have swept away the charges when the trial in November 2019that has been hulled, three weeks, behind-the-scenes funding of the party (since renamed Rassemblement national (RN).
In his term, the prosecutor’s office in Paris had requested a fine of 500,000 euros against the FN, while the counsel for the State had claimed 11.6 million euros in damages, corresponding to the election expenses reimbursed by public money.
Taking responsible for the president and Emmanuel Macron and Prime minister Edouard Philippe, the RN had denounced on Twitter a “the will of these politicians to kill the RN, rather than let him win at the polls ! “
Beyond a conviction, a heavy fine would put a little more in danger the finance is already vanishing from the RN, who had just find a “amicable agreement “ with his creditor of the Russian federation to reschedule the repayment of approximately 9.6 million euros for a loan subscribed in 2014.
“Return book “
To the floor, the party is made an accomplice “montages smoky “ and loans ” are fictitious “ that aimed, according to him, to “transform the structure “ – the communications company Riwal Frédéric Chatillon, a close advisor to Marine Le Pen, and man’s central device – “in a machine to make money “ and “diverting public money from a systemic point of view “.
However, for the prosecution, the FN played “a leading role “ in the implementation of this system kits – flyers, posters, website, accounting service… – sold to the candidates by Jeanne, the micro-party of Marine Le Pen, and provided by Riwal.
These kits “mandatory “, “identical “, “non-modular “, “overcharged “hid, according to the public prosecutor, a corrupt “it will be funds from the planned repayments of the State “, which covers the expenses of candidates who have exceeded 5 % of the vote.
The micro-party Jeanne, whose prosecution requested the dissolution, was, in fact, the amount of the kit and the interest on the loan to the candidates who made immediate money by buying the equipment. This “return book “ allowed the micro-party, almost devoid of own funds, to advance, almost 9 million euros.
He waited then for the reimbursement of the state to pay for Riwal, his sole intermediary with the printers.Representatives of the public prosecution have also called to punish the suspicious operations during the 2012 presidential and other election campaigns until 2015.
– Expenditure validated by the commission
For three weeks, the defence, as a bloc, has attempted to justify the legality and the ingenuity of this system, designed to alleviate the financial difficulties of the FN after the crushing defeats in election of 2007.
The main argument of the defendants ? The validation in full of the expenses of candidates by the national Commission of campaign accounts in 2012. Pleading the release, the lawyers have denounced “the entrance of politics into the courtroom “ for “eliminate the competition of the political spectrum “.
Against Frédéric Chatillon, the floor has required the most severe sentence : four years in prison, including two suspended sentence and 200,000 euros fine and a ban management final. Former chair of the Gud, the student union of the extreme right, Mr. Chatillon, a 52-year-old is also accused of enriched fraudulently misappropriating profits juicy earned by its companies.
Against two executives of the party, the treasurer Wallerand de Saint-Just and the lawyer Jean-François Jalkh, the prosecutor requested the imprisonment, respectively, ten months and two years. He has also claimed their ineligibility for two years for the first, elected in île-de-france, and five years for the second, mep.
Have finally been requested sentences ranging from 12-month suspended prison sentence up to six months farm for four relatives of Mr. Chatillon : his companion Sighild White, the elected île-de-france Axel Loustau as well as their friends Olivier Duguet and Nicolas Hook, the accountant, now under threat of a prohibition to exercise.
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