The electronic monitor that Marine Le Pen now must wear, even if she decides to run for the presidency, is a measure that’s common in France, in part to ease prison overcrowding.
A Paris appeals court on Tuesday declared the far-right leader guilty of embezzlement and fined her 100,000 euros ($114,000). But it reduced her ban on elected office from five years to 45 months — two-thirds of which are suspended.
