In France, the authorities did not take the “opportunity” to eliminate the main political competitor with the help of the court

On February 10, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the Ultra Party of the National Association, and its one -partyist, Eurod. Gilber Collar, appeared in the Paris suburb of the Nanner on February 10. The prosecutor's office charged them with an article on the “spread of violence scenes” among minors, the maximum sentence of which is up to 5 years in prison and up to 75 thousand euros of the fine. Mrs. Le Pen, who, judging by the polls, is, along with Emmanuel Macron Favorite of the election-2022, accused the authorities of political persecution.

What is the essence of the matter

Madame Le Pen and her one-party man is judged for twitter messages posted on December 16, 2015.

On that day, in the program of the famous interviewer Jean-Jacques Buruden on BFMTV, political scientist Gilles Kepel announced the connection between the “rise” of Islamism and the growth of the popularity of the ultra-right party Le Pen (then it was called the National Fleet), without at the same time the parallels meanwhile.

After that, Marin Le Pen published on Twitter the images of three murders, which were committed by the forbidden, including in Russia, the Islamic State terrorist group. Mrs. Le Pen signed the publication: "Daech, c'est ca!" (“That's what Daech is!”, That is, “ISIS”). A similar publication was made by the Euroreptor Gilber Colesh.

On the same day, according to the statement of the Minister of Internal Affairs of France Bernard Vecnev, the prosecutor's office began the investigation. That is, the legal persecution of Mrs. Le Pen began under the "old regime". Nevertheless, even then, as now, a little more than a year remained before the elections, and the current president (Hollande) still planned to nominate for a second term.

It is also important to note that the publications were made against the backdrop of shock, which the country was experiencing a month after Parisian terrorist attacks on 11/13/2015, in which 130 people died.

The family of American journalist James Fouley, whose photograph of the murder also posted Le Pen, on the same day published a statement demanding to delete the publication. Le Pen deleted the photograph of Fowley, leaving the rest of the images.

The prosecutor’s office calls this fact “aggravating circumstance”. In addition, the state prosecution insists that minors could see the images.

Madam Le Pen repeatedly called this pursuit of a political -

Including after in September 2018 her herself and Gilbert Collir were called to undergo a psychiatric examination.

Le Pen announced the “methods used by totalitarian regimes”, experts in the field of law in response emphasized that the article under which the charge has been made provides for the mandatory conduct of such an examination. At the same time, experts emphasized that the article entered into French legislation in the early 90s in order to “protect” minors from pornographic images previously rarely used.

Neither Marin Le Pen, nor Gilber Collar appeared in a psychiatric examination, and for all three years, while the investigation lasted, they never came for an interrogation to call the investigation.

Before the trial, the prosecutor’s office managed to achieve only that Mr. Collir and Mrs. Le Pen were deprived of deputy inviolability, and after that in 2018 they received the status of the accused.

How it will end

As a result, in the building of the Nanter Palace of Justice, the “Political Process” turned out to be the demand of the prosecutor's office to write out a fine of 5 thousand euros to both accused. But perhaps this will be possible to avoid. The court appointed a decision on May 4.

Presidential elections in France are scheduled for April 2022. According to the last survey published at the end of January, Marin Le Pen should, as in the previous elections (2017), go to the second round with Emmanuel Macron. Only this time, sociologists predict almost complete equality between rivals in the second round.

PS

By the way of political persecution: the other day, February 5, Marine Le Pen commented on the condemnation of Alexei Navalny. The leader of the French ultra -right party, which was previously convicted of receiving “Russian loans”, and this time did not change the traditions, supporting the actions of the Kremlin. “This (business) is not much related to politics,” Le Pen assured the audience of the French television channel BFMTV.