According to a report, Marine Le Pen, best known for her anti-immigration agenda says she and her colleagues are innocent of the charge of embezzlement of €2.9 million of european funds and are appealing against the verdict. Reportedly Geert Wilders, leader of the dutch Party for freedom who is known for his policies on immigration, opposition to islam and euro-scepticism has supported her on the social media platform X, as has the prime ministers of Hungary and Italy.
According to reports, Ms Le Pen said that the judgment was a political decision aimed at preventing her competing in the presidential election, but France has denied their courts are politicised and 57% of french people believe that justice was served without bias.