‘More will come to us now’: what does Le Pen verdict mean for far-right’s future?

Marine Le Pen and her RN party plan to hold a rally in Paris on Sunday to protest against her conviction. Photograph: Marie Genel/The Guardian

Near a roast chicken stand at a rural market, Jocelyn Dessigny was giving out leaflets bearing a photograph of the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen and the words “Save democracy!”

“It is a political attack,” he said of Le Pen’s criminal conviction this week.