Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken before a sea of French flags in Paris on Sunday. "For 30 years I have ...

French politician Marine Le Pen and eight other members of her right-wing party were found guilty of embezzling public funds on Monday, and she herself was barred from running for public office.

French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for political office for five years after being found guilty of embezzling European Union funds, in a politically explosive ...

Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been "at the heart" of the scheme. She is now barred from running against President Emmanuel Macron in the next election. "This is a seismic political ...

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzlement of public funds and has been deemed ineligible to run for public office ...

“It’s my political death they want,” far-right leader Marine Le Pen claimed in November – a prediction that proved prescient, though few took it seriously at the time. The three-time ...

Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of the ascendant far-right political movement in France, was hit with a non-custodial prison sentence and barred from running in elections for five years on Monday as ...

A French criminal court’s disqualification of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French populist party, the Rassemblement National, from running for office for five years, along with a sentence of four ...