French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen is seen arriving at a Paris court on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Paris. She was found guilty of embezzlement and barred from running for public office.

PARIS—A French court convicted Marine Le Pen of misusing European Union funds, banning her from the next presidential election in a ruling that upends the country’s political landscape. Monday ...

Marine Le Pen, the leader of the parliamentary group of the far-right French Rassemblement National (RN) party, leaves the Paris courthouse after her trial on March 31, 2025 in Paris, France.

After being found guilty in the criminal court, Le Pen was barred from running for office for five years and sentenced to four years in prison, and she was fined 100,000 euros. However, half of ...

Marine Le Pen was born in France in 1968. Her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, was a politician, a veteran of the Algerian War, and the founder of the National Front.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen walks on the day of the verdict of her trial alongside 24 other defendants and the RN party itself, over accusations of misappropriation of European Union ...

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 ruling ...

Marine Le Pen, who was sentenced last week for an embezzlement conviction, held a rally attended by thousands in protest of her sentence on Sunday, claiming that it was politically motivated.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on the day of the verdict of her trial over accusations of misappropriation of European Union funds, at the courthouse in Paris on March 31.

Ms. Le Pen ran in 2012, 2017 and 2022, steadily increasing her share of the vote to 41.45 percent. An ineligibility verdict against Ms. Le Pen could be appealed.

Marine Le Pen, flanked by her late father Jean-Marie Le Pen, speaking in 2012. Francois Mori/Associated Press But even if the tone has changed, Ms. Le Pen’s platform is still staunchly hard right.

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen will not be eligible to run for public office for the next five years after a court found her guilty of embezzlement. CBS News' Elaine Cobbe reports.