Man detained after death threat against embezzlement trial judge

The French authorities on Tuesday, April 9, arrested a 76 -year -old man for a threat of death against the judge who presided over the panel that condemned the extreme right -wing leader Marine Le Pen to the prohibition of running for a position, prosecutors said to the agency AFronce Presse (AFP), confirming a report of the newspaper Le Parisien. The bomb trial, which could crush the 56 -year -old woman’s dream of winning the French presidency in 2027, has surprised the political establishment of France and enraged many in her national party Rassemblementa (RN). Since the conviction, the judges who issued the decision have received threats, and the main judge Benedict of Perthuit is under police protection, including the increase in patrols and regular rounds around their home.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office, speaking with AFP, said, about the man who stops: “In his X account, he had published the following:” What this dog deserves, “along with a photograph or a guillotine.”

The researchers opened another investigation at the beginning of the year after death threats were published on an extreme right website. The threats were made against one of the judges and two prosecutors after they requested sentences against the defendants, including Le Pen at the end of the eight -week trial in November. Five suspects have identified and will be questioned.

‘A frontal attack against the Judiciary’

Le Pen last week received a partially suspended prison period, a fine of € 100,000 ($ 109,000) and the prohibition of running in the elections for five years, immediately effective, after being convicted of a scheme under which the EU Parliament for its party. The Court ruled that Le Pen was in the “heart” of the public funds emocuation system. A total of 24 people have been convicted, in addition to their party.

In his reaction to the sentence, President Emmanuel Macron told government members that the French judiciary was “independent” and that “judges must be protected,” according to an official present at the meeting last week.

The former Minister of Justice, Nicole Belloubet, condemned attacks against the French justice system on Tuesday, noting that the investigation into the case had lasted years. She cited the warning of the tribute of the nineteenth -century novelist of Balzac: “Distrust of the Judiciary marks the beginning of the end of society.” Making comments like “the tyranny of the judges” is “a frontal attack against the Judiciary,” said Belloubet. These public statements “are as inaccurate as unacceptable, questioning the justice system, the concept of the rule of law and even the law itself,” he wrote.

RN reactions hit a ‘witch hunt’

Gathering his followers and members of the RN party at a meeting in Paris on Sunday, Le Pen said that the extreme right was the objective of a “witch hunt.”

His main lieutenant and president of RN, Jordan Bardella, 29, has criticized “the tyranny of the judges”, but also said on Sunday that the party did not want to “discredit all the judges.”

The Paris Court of Appeals said it would be the case within a period that could allow him to function in the 2027 surveys if his conviction is in excess or his sentence changes. However, there is no guarantee that the Court of Appeals will cancel the Broadment of the Lower Court.