Posted on 07/01/2017 1:10:01 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been placed under formal investigation over an alleged European parliament funding scandal.
The allegations were passed to French investigators who have opened a case.
The parliament suspects some €5m (£4m; $5.4m) went to assistants of Ms Le Pen's National Front (FN) who were not working for MEPs but were actually engaged in FN party work in France.
The National Front has denied the allegations.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Lawfare.
The liberal fascists know LePin can eventually win the Presidency. So now they try to destroy her.
But that will never work if LePin takes it to the people.
This is like a full tax audit - a nightmare - because one has to prove oneself right.
“Allegations”. “Alleged”.
Yeah. Typical leftist fake news.
French equivalent of Russian election tampering
Smells like the French version of Trump/Russia.
I sometimes wonder if there was rigging of the vote in that election.
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