Marine Le Pen appeared before an appeal court on Tuesday to contest her embezzlement conviction, denying that she orchestrated any system to misuse European Parliament funds and seeking to overturn a ruling that has barred her from public office.
Far-right figurehead of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, spent nearly five hours in the dock on Tuesday as she sought to persuade the Paris Court of Appeal that there was no organised scheme behind the use of parliamentary assistants by her party’s MEPs – and that each contract should be judged on its own merits.
